Walking ain't easy Sitting draws pain. "I use a heating pad."
Her pink house is a shrine with 2 T.V. altars. "I'm so lucky."
Marilyn is 72. "I ran my own modeling agency." She orchestrates care, for her mother Anne, for husband Manny.
("He had a stroke.") and for Debbie, her daughter with M.S.
"WHO TOLD YOU SHE HAD M.S. ???!!!!" screamed her text.
I pause, . . . . . Volcanic fissures of paranoia erupt weekly. (she's tired, living on that last nerve, Om..... I must forgive... forgive... forgive...).
"You did" I reply.
Anne, Marilyn, Manny, and Debbie. And the pink house altars chanting. Chanting greed. Chanting wanna be, wanna more, wanna wanna om wanna wanna....
The ****-you-with-boredom soaps and talk shows blast from all T.V.s,
"ELLEN looks more like a man everyday, I like KATIE," she declares, as I quietly shut the door.