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Gary Peterson <[log in to unmask]>
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St. John's University Cerebral Palsy List
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Thu, 25 Apr 2002 17:44:42 -0700
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Hey Mag!!

What you wrote here is greaaaat!!  I love it!!!  Makes me wonder what
kind of addventures you've had with our friend Amy.  Think I will
forward this to her!!  HAHAHA

See ya-Gary



On Sun, 21 Apr 2002, Magenta Raine wrote:

> By Magenta Raine.................
>
> Angella is my chocolate caramel angel. She is as wacky, fun, and smart as I
> am. When we are out in public together people ask if we are mother and
> daughter, Angella was happy when I finally colored my hair, as it made me not
> look like her mother, (her sister is light skinned -- about the same as my
> skin color).
>
> Sometimes when dressing me we get into funny positions, and if I were a man,
> I'd probably try to make something of them. Instead, I just say, "Boy, look
> at us…now if I were a guy…" and she responds, "Yes, but you're not and I'm
> not interested in women." We laugh.
>
> Sometimes when putting on a skirt or pants, Angella will tell me, "assume the
> position." I lay on my back and lift my legs up. It's not the most dignified
> position, but it gets the job done. Sometimes Angella will tease me about
> this as being my favorite position, and I just smile demurely.
>
> Angella is probably the most man-crazy assistant I've ever had. Sometimes,
> she walks into my room, and some days I can just sense what she feels before
> she says, "Hmm I feel so sexy today." We laugh a lot.
>
> She is in graduate school now, and because she hasn't a computer yet, I'm
> typing her papers for her. Her readability score is just the opposite of
> mine. She has a 12th grade writing level and the program says her papers are
> going to be understood by only 35 percent of the American population.  My
> writing tends to be at a ninth grade level, but understandable to about 75
> percent if the population. If this is accurate, our education system is sadly
> lacking.
>
> I have a thing about zippers, I don't understand it. But every time Angella
> wears a new jogging outfit, (and lord knows she must have 35 of them by now),
> I am tempted to tease her by adjusting the zipper on her jacket, or the
> zipper on her pants leg. I guess this is just my way of saying, "Ooohhh,
> another zipper!" and remaining youthful in spirit.
>
> When it rained the other day, she wanted to play scrabble, but didn't feel
> like keeping score and bratted out on me by saying, "Can we play another
> game?" when I kept putting nice words down. So, we played Tell a Fortune, and
> we "read" each others fortunes. And then we played charades. This may not
> seem like part of her job, but life is more than just cleaning, making food,
> and going to the doctor.
>
> All of Angella's past boyfriends have commented that she has "too much fun on
> the job."  But we just feed on each other's consumerism, and she adapted my
> love of catalogs and on-line buying. And I had to quit using my credit card,
> so now we're both on a credit card diet. I have instead, purchased from
> places that let you make monthly installments, and a couple of stores have
> delayed billing, but I've figured out what I can afford, so I just finished
> getting my new wardrobe. Which I needed since I've dropped six dress sizes in
> the past year, and had to give away many of my clothes, particularly skirts
> and pants because they're falling off me. I've dropped 27 pounds, most on
> purpose, and a few because of a bad reaction to medication. I'm proud that
> today I am within the weight I was in high school.  Anyway, since I worked
> hard for the money, I can spend it the way I want to. So, I really love
> working, as it makes me not only feel productive and useful, but it enables
> me to not look like a slob.
>
> Today, Angella caught me unaware, while ordering a refill of my medication,
> she suddenly asked, "Do you want this filled by a male or female?"  I looked
> at her, like "What?!"  I shrugged my shoulders and raised my hands in a
> who-cares gesture. Three minutes later she asked "tall or short?"  I grinned
> and snorted like a horse. Later, after going over the address with a live
> person, she asked me another question, "Brown eyes or blue?" but pretended to
> still be on line. I laughed and said, "Ohhh Girl, you are so bad today!"
>
> Sometimes I wear tight fitting socks, and when I want to take a bath, I need
> help taking them off.  I will stick my legs out toward Angella and she will
> grab hold of my socks, then tell me to reverse my chair. I do, and slowly the
> socks stretch and pull off.
>
> The other day Claire was substituting for Angella, and I nearly pulled her
> onto the bed with me as we tried to get a shirt over my head and arms. We
> laughed.
>
> Today we ran into the old cream cheese problem. I said I wanted "Cream
> cheese," and she kept saying "You want green cheese?" Got a good giggle out
> of that.
>
>
>
>
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