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@@@@@It seemed that in the end, only time could
issue a divorce decreeAnd that the decree would
be partial at best
I turned her toward meWe were being watched by a
great many people, and I suppose to them it looked
like an embraceI got one
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glimpse of her wide, startled eyes, and then I was
whispering in her ear
“Yes, the girl in the rowboat is IlseI never
meant her to be there, because I never meant
anythingI never even knew I was going to paint
these pictures until I started doing themAnd
because she’s back-to, no one else is ever going
to know unless you or I tell themHer eyes were still wide, her
lips parted as if to receive a kiss”What did
Ilse say?”
“The oddest thing She took me by the sleeve and
pulled me down to NoIn both of
these, Rowboat Girl was wearing the green dress
with straps that crossed over her bare back”She
said you must be reading her mind, because she
ordered a dress like that from Newport News just
this spring
She looked back at the picturesI stood silently
beside her and let her look
“I don’t like these, EdgarThey’re not like the
others, and I don’t like them
I thought of Tim Riley saying, Your ex has great
insight but little kindness
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Pam lowered her voice”You don’t know something
about Illy that you shouldn’t, do you? The way you
knew about-”
“No,” I said, but I was more troubled by the Girl
and Ship series than everSome of it was seeing
them all hung in a line; the accumulated weirdness
was like a punchThat was Elizabeth’s opinionHowever
many there are, you must sell them
And I could understand why she thought so

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Many employers feel that advising their workers to mind their own business is bad for businessI am sure it can be for certain individualsBut for me, focusing on my own business, developing assets, made me a better employeeI came in early and worked diligently, amassing as much money as possible so I could begin investing in real estate Hawaii was just set to boom, and there were 4 fortunes to be madeThe more I realized we were in the beginning stages of a boom, the more Xerox machines I soldThe more I sold, the more money I made, and, of course, the more deductions there were from my paycheckI wanted out of the trap of being an employee so badly that I worked harder, not lessBy 1978,I was consistently one of the top five salespeople in sales, often NoI badly wanted out of the rat race
In less than three years, I was making more in my own little corporation, which was a real estate holding company, than I was making at XeroxAnd the money I was making in my asset column, in my own corporation, was money working for me Not me pounding on doors selling copiersMy rich dad’s advice made much more sense Soon the cash flow from my properties was so strong that my company bought me my first PorscheMy fellow Xerox salespeople thought I was spending my commissionsI was investing my commissions in assets
My money was working hard to make more money Each dollar in my asset column was a great employee, working hard to make more employees and buy the boss a new Porsche with before-tax dollars I began to work harder for XeroxThe plan was working, and my Porsche was the proof
By using the lessons I learned from my rich dad, I was able to get out of the “proverbial rat race” of being an employee at an early

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“Sir?”
Cummings noddedHow’s the battery coming?”
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@@@@@”It’s real pleasure
you’ve givenThe poor girl’s pining for Ireland is the truth of it,
and by chance her name is KathleenTell me, do you know ‘The
Curragh
of Kildare’? It’s a specialty of Billy’s, him with the music boxIt
would be a rare favor were you to sing with him playing and make him
sound like a musician The music went on until the sun dropped
behind
the trees and the breeze became chill- Danny Murray couldn’t accept Jamie’s
invitation
to supperHe had to be back at his ship by dark
“Jamie, I’m thinking I should take Kathleen with me when I go,” said
Colum”She’s been here long enough to get over being homesick, but
her heart’s still aching Scarlett nearly poured boiling water on her
hand instead of in the teapot”Where are you going, Colum?”
“Back to Ireland, darling
“But the Bishop hasn’t changed his mind about Tara, yetAnd there’s
something else I want to talk to you about
“Well, I’m not leaving this minute, Scarlett darlingThere’s time for
everythingWhat do you think, with your woman’s heart? Should
Kathleen go back?”
“I don’t knowShe’s been up there with her ever since
we got back What difference did it make what Kathleen did? It was
Colum that matteredHow could he just pick up and leave when she
needed him? Oh, why did I just sit there singing with that filthy
dirty boy? I should have gotten Colum to go for a walk the way I
plannedScarlett only picked at the cheese toast and potato soup
they
had for supper”Oof,” Maureen groaned when
the
kitchen was tidy again”I’m going to take my old bones to bed early
tonightSitting on the ground all those hours has me stiff as a plow
handleYou, too, Mary Kate and HelenTomorrow’s a school day

@@@@@Part of me was trying to
think of my own girls, and part of me was trying
not to”I don’t know how a kid – any kid – could
come up with something like that
“Race memory,” Wireman said”That’s what the
Jungians would say
“And how did I end up painting this same fucking
ship? Maybe this same fucking creature, only from
the back? Do the Jungians have any theories about
that?”
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“It doesn’t say Perse on Elizabeth’s,” Jack
pointed out
“She would have been four,” I said”I doubt if
the name would have made much of an impression on
her I thought of her earlier pictures – the ones
where this boat had been a beautiful white lie she
had believed for a little while”Especially once
she saw what it really was
“You talk as if it were real,” Wireman said
My mouth was very dryI went to the bathroom,
drew myself a glass of water, and drank it down
“I don’t know what I believe about this,” I said,
“but I have a general rule of thumb in life,
WiremanIf one person sees a thing, it could be a
hallucinationIf two people see it, chances of
reality improve exponentiallyElizabeth and I
both saw the Perse
“In your imaginations,” Wireman said”In your
imaginations you saw it
I pointed to Wireman’s face and said, “You’ve seen
what my imagination can do
He didn’t reply, but he nodded
804
“You said, ‘Once she saw what it really was,’”
Jack said”If the boat in that picture is real,
what is it, exactly?”
“I think you know,” Wireman said”I think we all
do; it’s pretty damned hard to missWe’re just
afraid to say it out loud
“Okay, it’s a ship of the dead,” Jack sa

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Simply put, people who have low self-esteem and low tolerance for financial pressure can never, and I mean never, be richAs I have said, a lesson learned from my rich dad was that “the world will push you around The world pushes people around not because other people are bullies, but because the individual lacks internal control and louis vuitton duffle bag disciplinePeople who lack internal fortitude often become victims of those who have self-discipline
In the entrepreneur classes I teach, I constantly remind people to not focus on their product, service or widget, but to focus on developing management skillsThe three most important management skills necessary to start your own business are:

1Management of cash flowManagement of personal time

I would say, the skills to manage these three apply to anything, not just entrepreneursThe three matter in the way you live your life as an individual, or as part of a family, a business, a charitable new cartier organization, a city or a nation
Each of these skills is enhanced by the mastery of self disciplineI do not take the saying “pay yourself first” lightly
The Richest Man in Babylon, by George Classen, is where the statement “pay yourself first” comes fromMillions of copies have been sold But while millions of people freely repeat that powerful statement, few follow the adviceAs I said, financial literacy allows one to read numbers, and numbers tell the story By looking at a person’s income statement and balance sheet, I can readily see if people who spout the words “pay yourself first” actually practice what they oyster rolex preach
A picture is worth a thousand words So let’s again compare the financial statements of people who pay themselves first against someone who doesn’t

People who pay themselves first

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Someone who pays everyone else first- Often there is nothing left

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|————————-
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| Assets | Liabilities |
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“Hush up and take another sip,” said ScarlettThank heavens I
haven’t
got a puny stomach, she thought
Even the food poisoning from Saint Patrick’s Day is over now, or I
couldn’t have enjoyed my dinner so muchShe woke abruptly when
the
first red streaks of dawn were on the horizon and ran with frantic
clumsiness into the small convenience room that adjoined the cabin
There she fell to her knees and vomited into the flower-decorated
china
receptacle of the mahogany chaise priveeShe couldn’t be seasick,
not
herNot when she loved sailing so muchWhy, in Charleston, when
the
tiny sailboat was climbing the waves in the storm, she hadn’t even felt
queasy, nor when it slid down into the trough of the waveThe Brian
Boru was steady as a rock compared to thatShe couldn’t imagine
what
was wrong with her Slowly, slowly Scarlett’s bent head rose
from its drooping weaknessHer mouth and eyes opened wide with
discoveryExcitement raced through her, hot and strengthening, and
she laughed deep in her throatI’m pregnant! I
remember; this is how it feelsScarlett leaned back against the wall
and threw her arms wide in a luxurious stretchOh, I feel
wonderful
I don’t care how awful my stomach feels, I feel wonderfulI can’t wait to tell himSudden tears of
happiness poured down her cheeks, and her hands flew down to cover
her
middle in a protective cradling of the new life growing withinOh,
how she wanted this babyIt would be
strong, she knew it, she could feel its tiny strength alreadyA bold,
fearless little thing, like BonnieScarlett’s mind flooded with
memoriesBonnie’s little head had fit into her palm, hardly bigger
than a kitten’s
She’d fit into Rhett’s big hands like a dol

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“You found it; go on and open it
“It’s the drawings,” Wireman saidWhat Jack lifted
out of the rusty old heart-shaped box was Libbit’s
dolly, and seeing Noveen was like coming home
Ouuuu, her black eyes and scarlet smiling mouth
seemed to be sayingOuuu, I been in there all
that time, you nasty man
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When I saw her come out of that box like a
disinterred corpse out of a crypt, I felt a
terrible, helpless horror come stealing through me,
beginning at the heart and radiating outward,
threatening to first loosen all my muscles and
then unknit them completely
“Edgar?” Wireman asked sharply”All right?”
I did my best to get hold of myselfMostly it was
the thing’s toothless smileLike the jockey’s cap,
that smile was redAnd as with the jockey’s cap,
I felt that if I looked at it too long, it would
drive me madThat smile seemed to insist that
everything which had happened in my new life was a
dream I was having in some hospital ICU while
machines kept my twisted body alive a little while
longerand maybe that was good, for the best,
because it meant nothing had happened to Ilse
“Edgar?” When Jack stepped toward me, the doll in
his hand bobbed in its own grotesque parody of
concern”You’re not going to faint, are you?”
“No,” I said And when he tried
to pass it to me: “I don’t want to take it
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He did as I asked, and I understood at once why
I’d had that feeling of instant recognition, that
sense of coming homeNot because of Reba or her
more recent companion – although all three were
ragdolls, there was that similarityNo, it was
because I had seen her before, in several of
Elizabeth’s drawingsAt first I’d assumed she was
Nan MeldaThat was wrong, but -
“Nan Melda gave this to her,” I said
“Sure,” Wireman agreed”And it must have been her
favorite, because it was the only one she ever
drewThe question is, why did she leave it behind
when the family left Heron’s Roost? Why did she
lock it away?”
“Sometimes dolls fall out of favor,” I saidI was
looking at that red and smiling mout

@@@@@I say
“First! First!” But they only laugh, those meanies
I’m under the bandage, smelling the iodine, smelly
the sweaty, listening to them laughI scream at
them, scream loud, and they run awayNan Melda
comes, her head all red because her hair is
wrapped in the snarfHer roundies flash flash
flash in the sun and you call those roundies
braceletsI say “First, first!” and Nan Melda
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doesn’t knowSo then I say “Ass! Ass!” and Nan
makes me go potty even though I don’t need to go
pottyI’m on the potty and see and point”Ass!
Ass!” Daddy comes in”What’s this shouting
about?” with all white bubbles on his face except
for one smoothieThat’s where he slid the thing
that makes the hair go awayThe room is full of sunnyDust floats in
the sunny and his hand goes through the sunny with
the glass and you call that prettyI cry more afterwards, but from betterHe
kiss me kiss me kiss me, hug me hug me hug me, and
I try to say him – “Daddy!” – and still can’t
Then I think around sideways to his name, and John
is there, so I think that in my mind and while I
think John I “Daddy!” out my mouth and he hug me
hug me some more
She thinks Daddy is my first word on this side of
the bad thing
The truth is in the details
2 – Big Pink
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Kamen’s geographical worked, but when it came to
fixing what was wrong with my head, I think the
Florida part was coincidentalIt’s true that I
lived there, but I never really lived thereNo,
Kamen’s geographical worked because of Duma Key,
and Big PinkFor me, those places came to
constitute their own worldPaul on November tenth with hope in my
heart but no real expectationsKathi Green the
Rehab Queen came to see me offShe kissed me on
the mouth, hugged me hard, and whispered “May all
your dreams come true, Eddie