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An Amazing Woman

October 30, 2016

                                      AN AMZING WOMAN

Born in Canton, Ohio
Young brother Jack in tow
Father and Aunts were amazed
How quickly she craved
To know the world
Ready for it to unfurl
Always reaching the higher plateau
Never accepting what was below
Always had her nose in a book
Boarding school took a second look
Came to Chicao at ninteen
Dark haired beauty, she was deemed
Careers, modeling, entrepreneur
She always persevered to endure
Married: Claudia and Mark born
Love forever sworn
Harold was second husband
Great exciting times were in hand
Big Day, Claudia's wedding
Mark's cancer, tears shedding
Boyd and Morgan, beloved grandchildren
Grammy teaching, sharing had been
Cat lover extraordinaire
Gray, white, black, tabby hair
My wise, loyal friend of thirty-one years
Many happy, sad times, My heart in tears.
 

Learning how to read

October 13, 2016

My mom and Marylyn were close friends in the 70's when I was in my little girl years.  I will always  remember her as a posh, sophisticated, wry, intellectual who happened to be a stunner as well. But there is an even more important reason I idolized her when I was a girl.

As a child, I struggled with learning and now I'm quite sure I had an undiagnosed learning disability.  I hated reading.  One afternoon, Marylyn was visiting and quite unlike some other family friends, she treated me as an important individual, worthy and capable of discussing world events, adult concerns, politics, literature any having ideas of my own. So eventually I began to "pretend" I was the person she thought I could be, until I actualized that feeling, and began to view my self in an entirely new way, that of a contributor, an independant, a person that held her own weight.

As I had mentioned earlier. I hated to read and would become paralyzed when confronted with a page filled with words to the point that  I couldn't  absorb what was put before me.  That afternoon Marylyn suggested a book to me and I shall never forget it.  The title was "White Lotus".   When I opened  it up and had  begun to try and read it, it was a swirl of letters and words, but because I knew Marylyn thought I would enjoy it, I stuck to it and before I knew it I was no longer fake reading, I was swept away to another time and place, transported  to that place that was completely different  to my life. She introduced the joy of reading to me in a way a parent or teacher ever could.  To this day I credit her with my being able to actually enjoy reading rather than being paralyzed by it.  Thanks Marylyn for being the movie star I always knew you were.  You were a queen and you always will be.  Thanks for giving me the joy of reading, it has taken far.  I love you and will miss you always.

Dawn 







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