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I'm madly in love and currently on my honeymoon. We were married in November 1973. Each time I see her, I have ocular induced asthma. She takes my breath away.
Wishing true love to everyone.
Soldier in the Rain is a deeply moving film. Nice work.
At 19, Jackie Gleason left his mother’s wake with almost nothing.
He found subway fare in his pocket and walked out of the Brooklyn apartment where Mae Gleason had raised him alone. His older brother had died when he was three.
His father left when he was nine and never returned. After Mae died, there was no parent waiting and no diploma. He moved in with other performers and looked for nightclub work. Some nights dinner was hot water and free cafeteria condiments.
Born Herbert John Gleason on February 26, 1916, he quit high school at 16, hung around poolrooms, and took a job as a theater master of ceremonies for four dollars a night. After his mother died, comedy had to pay the rent.
His first club job nearly ended when he bombed and was fired. He returned for the second set, won the crowd, and stayed.
Jack Warner signed him in 1941, but Hollywood did not make him a star. He returned east, worked clubs and Broadway, and tried television. The Life of Riley lasted one season. On Cavalcade of Stars he began building characters from the people he knew. Ralph Kramden changed everything. CBS made him a star.
Then came the 39 filmed episodes of The Honeymooners. When the series ended, he stopped rather than weaken it.
He also made music. Music for Lovers Only spent 153 weeks in Billboard’s Top 10. He won a Tony Award for Take Me Along and earned an Oscar nomination as Minnesota Fats in The Hustler.
The teenager from the pool halls now held the screen with a cue and a stare.
He had two daughters with Genevieve Halford. Later marriages followed, the last to Marilyn Taylor. At 61 he found another big audience as Sheriff Buford T. Justice in Smokey and the Bandit. His final film was Nothing in Common with Tom Hanks.
Jackie Gleason died of cancer on June 24, 1987, at 71, with Marilyn beside him. His daughters had visited days earlier. The boy who once left with almost nothing did not leave alone. He spent a lifetime turning loneliness into laughter. ❤️
It's always hard to say.
My wife was 19 and I was 20. We have been together 53 fabulously happy years.
30 for me 23 for her. I guess we finally worked it out to be happy together.
Glad you split amiably.
I've said for a long time if you don't know what to buy a woman as a gift get a stuffed animal or a doll. (Choose one that is extremely cute.)
I gave my grandmother a stuffed animal, she was surprised when she opened the gift, but she enjoyed having it.
Many people have told their stories of how kind and generous Dolly Parton was. Her impact was much more than most people appreciate.
My five-year-old granddaughter received a book from her ‘friend’ Dolly. Tonight she will be sad to have lost Dolly, but her memory will live on.
Her three-year-old sister will continue to sing Jolene, even if she knows only the first two words.
Thank you for your kind words Nancy, but this book is still deep in editing, I expect it to go out next year.
The cover is amazing thanks to your work. @NancyAgirl You are always spot on to what I need, and great to work with.
This book, [ Tales of the Valley Road Fellowship ] is a very interesting book. If you read it, you will truly enjoy it.
The author, @Daviddabling, is a very skilled writer who has written this book. He is very famous.
Buy it soon and enjoy! Thank you.🤩
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That is an interesting way to alert a story follows. i think I will start a similar signal with my wife. Sadly at my age I will also have to write myself a note to remind me what story I want to share.
My wife and I have a rule. If one of us quietly says, “Chapter Seven,” it means, “I have a ridiculous story about someone in this room, but I’ll tell you later.”
Last month, we were at a friend’s engagement party. About halfway through the night, I froze. Across the room was a woman I briefly dated in college.
I casually took a sip of my drink and whispered, “Chapter Seven.” My wife didn’t even turn around. She just smiled and said, “Blue dress?”
I blinked. “You already know?” She laughed.
“No.” “But you’re terrible at acting normal.” The rest of the evening, she never asked another question.
We talked with friends. Ate dinner. Took pictures.
Then we headed home. The second I started the car, she looked at me and said, “Alright…”
David Dabling retweeted
I think I have a crush on one of my characters...
Can anyone guess which one?
(In a parallel universe, where most of my followers have read my books, I get loads of guesses in the replies...🤣)
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If you're transferring money to editors, marketers, proofreaders, or other freelancers, do not rely on PayPal.
In a recent transaction, PayPal accepted my payment, immediately marked it as “complete,” then later decided they didn’t approve of the recipient. They are now holding the funds indefinitely — refusing to release the money to the intended recipient or refund it to me. They appear to treat the money as theirs once it’s in their system.
This is not an isolated incident. PayPal has a well-documented history of freezing funds, delaying transfers, or outright holding money with little recourse for the sender.Recommendation:
Use a more reliable payment method such as:
Wise (TransferWise)
Bank wire / ACH transfer
Stripe
Payoneer (with caution)
Credit card (when possible, for better buyer protection)
To me the big question is balance of $$ to pages.
$25 for a 115 page book (absurd) is a no for me.
$15 for a $200 page book (reasonable) okay.
Then it is the author, premise, story for me.
Eat lots of beans and you can get lots of sounds similar to these. They will have as much to do with power and speed, and effectiveness. Or was that sound actually your kid in the back seat making pretend sounds, to play like he was a cool driver?
I do. In fact I sometimes think there should be a government welfare program that assigns an effective market team that allows authors to author.
But knowing government programs we would be worse off not better. Shrugging emoji.
Awesome to hear that. The story deserves to be there.
Now at #23 in Fantasy Adventure Fiction!
3 days of my free book offer left and another promo tomorrow!
Let's see if it keeps climbing...
Well this might not help since I am angry at politics almost all the time.
But I don't plan to write about them. I write tounge in cheek ghost stories. Not forked tounge stories.