Anywhere but here?

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You can have 24 hours to spend with any person who has lived or will ever live. Think of the #1 person on your list. Now, disqualify that person.

Who is the second place person with whom you would want to spend a "day"? Why?

My choice would be Anais Nin. I once read almost all her diaries, and because of that, I wonder if she was the way I image her to be. Would she be endearing or annoying?

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Since my firat choice was Karl Fousek, the patriarch of my Euro-American ancestors and the architect of moving the "tribe" to the United states, I'm going to select the second most interesting family member I never knew.

My Maternal grandmother, who died when I was four. For those of you that know me in the flesh, you may have noticed my very dark hair and Hazel eyes. Marrying into a Slavic family, Violet's true sadness was that amongst her 5 children, not one was the blond, blue-eyed american standard.

Bear with me.

My mother carries the family genes very well, and looks exactly like the rest of the clan, but when I was born, I had startling blue eyes, and very blond hair. I was her "Prize,", and I am told that she doted on me. My father, of course, is a Native American, so the odds of this are remarkably low. My hair was so beautiful that my parents refused to cut it, and there was a little hippie child running around every family event.

I have but one memory of her, that of her sick bed, before she entered the Hospital and never came out. Lymphoma is a very nasty way to die, and we're pretty sure that the morphine addiciton is what truly killed her in the end.

By my next birthday, I had dark brown hair and hazel eyes.

I would very much like to have known an happy, healthy Violet Fousek. And to be honest, I'd like to see that Hippie kid. I bet he was happy.