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When this website-creator lived in San Diego, he used to spend a great deal of time in La Jolla, nearby. He almost took up a position offered to him,
as a schoolteacher
in the Los Angeles school system,
as a high school teacher
in the inner city,
based upon his having grown up in the ghettos of Detroit,
having been a combat arms, Airborne-qualified soldier in Germany, having attended an
all-black Kindergarten,
and having lived in the
ghetto-like conditions
surrounding San Diego,
fifteen miles from
Mexico, and having studied
Spanish in class for two
years in high school.
But some key paperwork
got lost...
So, two months later, at the age of thirty, he left California, and returned to Kentucky, where he had graduated from high school...
This web-creator's aunt
was employed by Jerry Lewis
as his personal secretary
for many years...
She attended Oxford University as a Rhode's Scholar,
majoring in Theatre.
She lived for many decades
in Beverly Hills...
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A scene from
Jerry Lewis' last great movie,
Smorgasbord (1983)
With careers in
concern violin,
medicine,
and education,
DASHED,
this
website designer became perfectionistic and bitter...
This website creator didn't "Flunk Out" of West Point, but he did "Flunk Out" of Pre-Med at West Point, due to his grades of D's in boxing and gymnastics classes. He was one of the most muscularly-non-endowed
members of the Four-Year Boot Camp...
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But his aunt probably
saved his life:
She flew from Beverly Hills,
parking her Rolls-Royce
at an airport,
to attend his
West Point Graduation Week,
while employed as the
personal assistant of Jerry Lewis.
She told him these
painful, bewildering-to-hear
words,
in fifteen minutes,
with SURGICAL PRECISION,
one day, that week,
and it was to alter
his life forever after:
"YOU are a MESS":
GET THERAPY!
Without this comment,
courageously stated,
he might well have one day
joined the rank of those
who utterly give up...
Three years later, he packed up, drove with a tiny car and trailer towed behind it, with $1500 borrowed cash,
to the San Diego area,
about fifty miles away from her,
and started psychoanalysis with a Jewish medical doctor,
six days a week,
in La Jolla, a surrounding
part of San Diego ...
He was able to afford it
only by living in the ghettos
surrounding San Diego,
and working overtime,
including all Saturdays...
Cash being very tight,
entertainment was a movie
each Friday night,
and a Chinese dinner,
followed by a hot crossed bun
and cup of coffee.
A girlfriend who was
a successful accountant,
paid for
all other restaurant outings,
and he would hang out
at her deluxe condo...
They contemplated marriage,
but she was a Catholic
and he was not...
This movie
mirrors the
website creator's
former perfectionism
and bitterness,
after his three career
hopes in violin, medicine,
and education, were dashed...
"No Reservations"
A perfectionist chef (Catherine Zeta-Jones) addicted to her work struggles to adjust when her sister passes away leaving her with a little girl to raise, while a new soup-chef (Aaron Eckhart) threatens to take over her kitchen with his high-spirited and free-wheeling ways.
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