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@Phoenix32890,

I usually don´t have a picture of a person behind a name at a2k, but I have always imagened you look like Kathrin Hepburn and was amazed when you said you are short.

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@saab,

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I usually don´t have a picture of a person behind a name at a2k, but I have always imagened you look like Kathrin Hepburn and was amazed when you said you are short.

Well, I always wanted to look like Cyd Charisse. I look nothing like Kathryn Hepburn, and dys can attest to that!

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@Phoenix32890,

Phoenix looks exactly like Kathrin Hepburn. (slightly shorter)

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@Phoenix32890,

I'd have been happy with Cyd's legs.

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@plainoldme,

The body that was attached to those legs was not bad, either!

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@saab,

I do have some pictures. They may or may not be accurate. I will keep them to myself, because, even should I have "hit the nail on the head," the described will deny it.

I am considering using one of the more over the top descriptions in a short story! No one will never know who inspired it!

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I did not even know who Cyd Charisse was. Looked her up on Google.
Beautiful woman, but I still think Kathrin Hepburn´s face has more of a character.

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@saab,

I was thinking that one had to be "of a certain age" to remember Cyd Charisse!

I was in Stockbridge, MA, yesterday, and, because I am of a certain age, I thought of Arlo Guthrie and James Taylor who put the town on the map, musically.

I decided to have a lemonade on the porch of the Red Lion Inn. I was one of the younger people sitting there! I also was the only person not drinking alcohol.

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@plainoldme,

Gee whiz- Stockbridge, The Red Lion Inn. I haven't been to that area in years, and I really loved it. I remember going to the Stockbridge Theatre, and seeing Ruth Gordon. She was rather elderly, but although she did not speak the entire time, she was on stage for the whole play. I was amazed that she could do it.

Come to think of it, I don't look like either of them, but I look closer to Ruth Gordon than Katherine Hepburn. Anyhow, Ruth Gordon was my heroine, and I vowed that when I was older, I would be just like her!!!

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@Phoenix32890,

Our family saw Marcel Marceau when he was 80 and he was on stage the entire time. We thought he had to have been exhausted (interestingly, I looked him up to see what year he died and learned that because of his skill as a speaker of English, he was a liaison officer with Patton's army.)

I really love the Berkshires.

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@plainoldme,

I was through Stockbridge yesterday too! Turned left at the Red Lion Inn to go to New York City

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@mags314772,

What time? Are you from MA or NYC or neither?

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@plainoldme,

I see it is neither. Small world. I got to Stockbridge around 4:30 in the afternoon. Walked around a bit then had lemonade before heading home, a drive of about an hour.

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@plainoldme,

Sorry I didn't answer you yesterday. Were on the train and off the internet. we are heading home from Chicago to St. Louis today.....

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@mags314772,

A nearly cross country train. That sounds like fun. My daughter and I traveled by train in France, largely because I couldn't afford to rent a car, but it meant that we didn't have to yell at each other for missing a turn. she was an au pair and a student at the time who was always tired, so riding on the train meant she could take cat naps.

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@Phoenix32890,

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She was rather elderly, but although she did not speak the entire time, she was on stage for the whole play. I was amazed that she could do it.

That's how I feel about Angela Lansbury, who is almost 85 and just completed her run in , "A Little Night Music" on Broadway. That takes impressive stamina.

My goal, even when much younger, was always to become an eccentric little old lady. I am still working on the eccentric part.

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@firefly,

My 25 year old son is already looking forward to being an eccentric old man. he comes up with ideas for how he will behave at least once a week.

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@plainoldme,

train travel is nice...relaxing. We arrived home last night...bless home

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Last week I wanted to bake a couple of potatoes in the microwave. I was stabbing them to release the steam, and was not paying much attention to what I was doing. I missed, ended up stabbing my finger, and sported a Band-Aid on my finger for days!

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I have one of those 18 month little calendar date books that I take around with me. The one that I bought this July has a place for addresses. I decided to write down the names, addresses and phone numbers of Mr. P's and my doctors.

The list took up FOUR PAGES!!!

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