Today my mom called to wish me a happy new year. We commiserated together over what a terrible year 2016 has been.<\/p>\n
On that general topic, I brought up the sad news about the recent passing of Debbie Reynolds, since she and my mom were pretty much contemporaries. And in return I learned some personal history that my mom had never told me until today.<\/p>\n
It seems that my dad (who passed away some years back) always had a crush on Debbie Reynolds.<\/p>\n
“Really??” I asked. “How much of a crush?”<\/p>\n
My mom said that he used to tell her “You have only one rival.”<\/p>\n
But my mother then told me that the rivalry had never really bothered her. As always, she had a very pragmatic perspective on the situation. “Fortunately,” she said, “Debbie was not available.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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