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Married Again Berta, Frank, Me, Kathy, Gina and her boyfriend K athy and I had returned to California after our successful visit to New York where she met my family. Now back, it was time to plan our wedding. Getting married was not new to either of us as we'd both been married before. Neither of us needed or wanted a formal fancy wedding. We picked a date in April, which was just a couple of months away. Kathy and I found a place in Sausalito to make rings for us. Kathy found a dress she liked and told me she would like to pick out what I was going to wear and I mostly let her. G etting married wasn't new but having a wedding and reception was going to be new for me. The first time I got married I married Donna at the home of a local Justice of the Peace. We called his number to confirm he was available. The person who answered told us to come to his house in a couple hours. We didn't dress up. We didn't even have rings. We just used a couple of ring...

  Noises Off & The Car That Got Away I am able to shut out noise. This came in handy when I was working. People talking never bothered me. In fact once concentrating on something I often didn't notice when someone started talking to me. The down side is this gets me into trouble around the house. Another thing I do is sort of buffer what's being said to me when I'm engaged in doing something else. I hear it or kind of hear it. I realize someone is talking to me but I don't let it totally in until I'm finished doing what I'm doing. This came in handy when I was in school. More than once I had a teacher call me out for looking out the window while they were talking and ask, “Are you listening to me?” I would look at them and repeat the last sentence they said. Sometimes the class would then laugh. As you can imagine, this did not exactly endear me to the teacher and I could tell this did not convince them I was paying attention but there was not...