Bright Green Ballet Flats, To Match The Polka-Dotted Scarf.

Jul 12, 2004 16:26

It's an amazing thing about shopping. When you do it right and carefully build and change your wardrobe [one sale at a time], you can change yourself. Whatever it is that will change you, you pay for it. And it's yours, fair and square. And if it can survive a few washes and still keep its charm, it's a real part of you.

You can become whoever you want to be, if you play your cards right.

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Lou Tellegen was a silent star who had an affair with Sarah Bernhardt [37 years his senior]. He married 5 times - most notably to an opera singer who was the lover of a Crowned Prince of Germany. Lou looks brooding and handsome in early photographs. A little dopey in older ones. He stabbed himself in the heart 7 times with a pair of scissors in October, 1934. He had cancer but they never told him. He had no career left, and that he knew.

No one remembers him now. Even Google lays his name to rest, for the most part.

Stabbing yourself in the heart 7 times with a pair of scissors. You've got to admire the man's stamina. I don't think I could manage it once.

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Maybe you aren't changing yourself after all.

Maybe you're only making people see what was there all along.
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