Ha! Ha! I thought that would raise some reactions. Believe me, Amos, if I could have heard my own comments about this at an earlier stage in my life I would have been utterly scandalized! I thought pretty girls were airlifted down out of heaven or something like that...

My God, the time and energy I squandered being obsessed with them! I coulda been a contendah! I coulda made sumpin' of myself!

It's all the fault of pretty girls, I say! Curses be upon them! They have filched my considerable potential and turned it into dross, merely by being what they are...a mundane but unexpectedly expensive book with a marvelous cover.

I wants me money back!!!! (spoken in the voice of Popeye) :-)

I think I'll be a girl next time just to get even. I've had enough.

- LH