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\hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 ********************** \par }\pard \ltrpar\ql \li0\ri0\sa200\sl276\slmult1\widctlpar\wrapdefault\aspalpha\aspnum\faauto\adjustright\rin0\lin0\itap0\pararsid14232307 {\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307\charrsid10970377 \par \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 I knew now that she was the one and only true love of my life. \par \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 I'd fondly remembered Linda Monroe thr\hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 oughout the years, but it wasn't until I unexpectedly saw her again nearly }{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307 \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 twenty years later }{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307\charrsid10970377 \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 at a wedding reception that my heart reminded me with a loud thump just exactly what I had been missing. Mercifully, it wasn't her wedding, or even mine. That}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307 \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 r \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 eally would have been awkward!}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307\charrsid10970377 \par \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 I had damn few regrets in life but letting her go out of mine those many years ago was definitely one of them. It was a mistake I didn't intend to make twice! The stars were now all coming into alignment for me, and more th \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 an a few pigeons were coming home to roost. I muttered a brief prayer of thanks to the Almighty, or whoever had the onerous duty of looking after the prayers of fools this particular week. \par \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 She was still a vision of loveliness and oh-so stunningly beautifu\hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 l; trim, every slight movement vivacious with life and without the vaguest hint of any frown lines engraved on her face. The Linda I\hich\f39 \rquote \loch\f39 d known and loved was unrelentingly happy and smiled from the moment she woke up to the time she went to bed}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307 \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 and the spark\hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 le in her eyes showed that this had not changed}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307\charrsid10970377 \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 . Her eyes were still her most remarkable feature, a sparkling deep intelligent brown-green swirl that seemed to draw you in deeper, as if they were hypnotic. She also recognized me almost at once, and as he\hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 r eyes grew larger with delight they drew me in once }{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307 \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 more }{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307\charrsid10970377 \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 and trapped me forever. \par \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 There are much worse fates. }{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307 \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 }{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307\charrsid10970377 \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 I never should have left her in the first place. More }{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307 \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 fool }{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307\charrsid10970377 \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 me! \par }\pard \ltrpar\qc \li0\ri0\sa200\sl276\slmult1\widctlpar\wrapdefault\aspalpha\aspnum\faauto\adjustright\rin0\lin0\itap0\pararsid14232307 {\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307\charrsid10970377 \par \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 ************** \par }\pard \ltrpar\ql \li0\ri0\sa200\sl276\slmult1\widctlpar\wrapdefault\aspalpha\aspnum\faauto\adjustright\rin0\lin0\itap0\pararsid14232307 {\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307\charrsid10970377 \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 We met for the first time at college, after a campus political c\hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 onference. We were philosophical opposites }{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307 \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 and we}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307\charrsid10970377 \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 didn't quite click the first time around but we }{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307 \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 soon }{ \rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307\charrsid10970377 \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 increasingly orbited around each other, with gravity and soon n}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307 \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 ature slowly }{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307\charrsid10970377 \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 brought us closer together. She was dating an acquaintance of mine who was i \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 n law school, but the match-up was far from ideal. He tended to be extremely moody and given to maudlin moods of self-destructive behavior. She wasn't terribly high maintenance, but she did like to have fun \hich\f39 \emdash \loch\f39 stimulating conversation at the very least. \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 Gradually, they drifted apart and we then drifted together with very little fanfare or fuss. Sleeping together, and eventually, her moving in with me, were relatively minor decisions we made afterwards by reflex rather than by any specific intent. \par \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 Everyon\hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 e said we were the perfect couple, and we really probably were. That might have been part of what horrified my family so much. That, and the fact that she was a Jewess of no money, connections or family. Note the use of }{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307 \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 the obsolete}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307\charrsid10970377 \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 and rather bigoted te\hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 rm, Jewess. My family was as WASP (White-Anglo-Saxon- Protestant) as it was possible to get in the very heartland of the American Midwest}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307 \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 and t}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307\charrsid10970377 \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 he more I loved Linda the more }{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307 \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 terrified my family was that I }{ \rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307\charrsid10970377 \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 would}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307 \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 perform an unforgiveable }{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307\charrsid10970377 \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 social outrage and \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 marry this delightful creature! \par \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 In fairness, my beloved was only half Jewish (from her mother) and quite non-practicing, but that still was enough by itself to give most members of my family nightmares. Tolerance is not a Piper family trait, alas.}{ \rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307 \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 Her ow\hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 n family was only slightly less unhappy about having me as a likely future in-law as well, so Linda and I both had extreme pressure at both ends that eventually crushed us like a nutcracker.}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307\charrsid10970377 \par \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 Eventually, we allowed family pressure to break us up. It was re\hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 grettable on both of our parts and we split the blame fairly evenly. We'd had a good run though, nearly two years and the breakup was about as easy and pleasant as could be hoped for}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307 \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 under the circumstances}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307\charrsid10970377 \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 . In fact I don't think either of us actually ev\hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 er made the }{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307 \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 f}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307\charrsid10970377 \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 ormal decision to split, we just allowed ourselves to be physically separated by circumstance and once we\hich\f39 \rquote \loch\f39 d went our separate ways we then failed to reconnect back together}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307 \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 as we had intended}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307\charrsid10970377 . \par \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 My family made sure that I was sent two thousand m\hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 iles away from her to complete my MBA and afterwards }{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307 \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 I }{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307\charrsid10970377 \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 was then }{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307 \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 promptly }{ \rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307\charrsid10970377 \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 sent to work for my grandfather in another }{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307 \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 equally }{ \rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307\charrsid10970377 \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 distant state while Linda was still completing her final years of }{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307 \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 graduate school back home}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307\charrsid10970377 \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 . She would have quit school and followe\hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 d me anywhere, without a penny in either of our pockets, but I was feeling noble and wouldn\hich\f39 \rquote \loch\f39 t let her abandon her own dreams of }{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307 \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 advanced }{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307\charrsid10970377 \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 education. Besides, the absence would \hich\f39 \lquote }{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\f39\fs24\insrsid14232307\charrsid342518 \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 just be for a little while\hich\f39 \rquote }{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307\charrsid10970377 \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 , we told each other. We had other dreams, thoughts\hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 , }{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307 \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 intentions, wild ass plans, etc}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307\charrsid10970377 \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 ... but living and reality soon got into the way once time and long distance started to erode our ardor.}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307 \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 }{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307\charrsid10970377 \par \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 "I'll }{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307 \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 dance at your wedding." S}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307\charrsid10970377 \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 he said by means of a final farewell one evening after another one of our increasingl\hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 y irregular phone calls when we}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307 \loch\af39\dbch\af37\hich\f39 \rquote \loch\f39 d both realized}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307\charrsid10970377 \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 that the long distance relationship just wasn't going to work out the way we really wanted it to. It's a nice useful phrase. Basically meaning more or less, "}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\f39\fs24\insrsid14232307\charrsid342518 \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 I wish you well, no regrets, now get on with you\hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 r life}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307\charrsid10970377 \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 ." \par \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 I didn't even consider asking her later to attend my wedding \hich\f39 \emdash \loch\f39 heck, I wished at the time that I could have found a way to avoid it myself, but that's a story for later. \par \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 I'd kept in vague }{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307 \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 indirect }{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307\charrsid10970377 \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 contact with her through a friend of a friend}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307 ,}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307\charrsid10970377 \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 bu \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 t we hadn't been together in the same city for }{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307 \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 about}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307\charrsid10970377 \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 }{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307 \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 twenty}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307\charrsid10970377 \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 years since }{ \rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307 \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 our separation}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307\charrsid10970377 \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 . Through mutual friends, I\hich\f39 \rquote \loch\f39 d discovered that she'd married an older man named Paul, and they had been }{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307 \loch\af39\dbch\af37\hich\f39 \lquote }{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307\charrsid10970377 \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 sort of}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307 \loch\af39\dbch\af37\hich\f39 \rquote }{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307\charrsid10970377 \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 happy together but it hadn't really worked out all that \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 well. There had been some talk of divorce off and on but they'd become just barely comfortable enough together to endure the situation for the sake of their only daughter Beatrice, whose wedding she was attending today. Paul was not present, except in s \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 p\hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 irit perhaps. He'd died of testicular cancer about eight years ago and Linda had remained a widow and had }{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307 \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 recently }{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307\charrsid10970377 \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 moved back to our hometown. From the rumors I'd heard through the grapevine, she\hich\f39 \rquote \loch\f39 d been a rather merry widow }{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307 \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 and there had been hints that \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 she\hich\f39 \rquote \loch\f39 d been checking up on me, }{ \rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307\charrsid10970377 \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 but our paths had not once crossed, until today. \par \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 Today she was marrying off her only daughter. Also today,}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307 \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 if there was any justice in this}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307\charrsid10970377 \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 world, I would begin my first steps to become a single man and ruler of my own destin\hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 y - for once and for all. \par \par }\pard \ltrpar\qc \li0\ri0\sa200\sl276\slmult1\widctlpar\wrapdefault\aspalpha\aspnum\faauto\adjustright\rin0\lin0\itap0\pararsid14232307 {\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307\charrsid10970377 \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 **************** \par }\pard \ltrpar\ql \li0\ri0\sa200\sl276\slmult1\widctlpar\wrapdefault\aspalpha\aspnum\faauto\adjustright\rin0\lin0\itap0\pararsid14232307 {\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307\charrsid10970377 \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 I need to explain right from the get-go that my family is (or was) seriously wealthy. Old money, earned the hard and traditional way off of the backs of the working class. }{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307 \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 I\hich\f39 \rquote \loch\f39 m as much of a modern capitalist as \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 anyone but my great-grandfather and grandfather were both major league robber-barons of the old school. \par }{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307\charrsid10970377 \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 My Great-Grandfather Piproswki supposedly came to the US from East Prussia in 1908. That's the family story. His old original immigration paperwork t\hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 hough suggests that his hometown was actually well on the Polish side of the border in those days. Worse, his own grandmother might have been Jewish as well! Far too pedestrian for the noble WASP history of our family and this unacceptable inconvenience \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 of history has been since been appropriately whitewashed out for public consumption. Thus did a poor Polish laborer transform himself via the arts of public relations into the }{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307 \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 founding }{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307\charrsid10970377 \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 patriarch of a noble Junkers fa}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307 \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 mily who became 'Piper'}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307\charrsid10970377 \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 , an American Ca\hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 ptain of Industry}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307 \loch\af39\dbch\af37\hich\f39 \'99}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307\charrsid10970377 \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 . \par \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 Hazarding a guess, I\hich\f39 \rquote \loch\f39 d say that the family anti-Semitic }{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307 \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 (and anti-Catholic) }{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307\charrsid10970377 \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 attitude didn\hich\f39 \rquote \loch\f39 t come across the ocean with him but was promptly acquired to accompany his growing fortune when he settled here into our mid-western city. He d\hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 id bring a strong work ethic with him and built a small but financially stable empire of canning plants that weathered the Great Depression without the slightest difficulty. The pickle plant that I run today was one of great-grandfather's very first ente \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 r\hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 prises, profitable and successful from the very first day it started business. \par \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 His only son, my grandfather Joseph, took this prosperous empire and grew it into a multi-state corporate food-processing hydra of nearly a thousand heads. Grow or die was his \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 motto and he bought up nearly every troubled cannery within a thousand miles of us back in the dark days of the depression right before World War Two, just in time to make a fortune that would make Midas envious. If you looked in a period encyclopedia to \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 learn what a 'war profiteer' was, the odds are you might see a photo of my grandfather. If he could can it, he sold it to the War Department for the consumption of our boys overseas ... at an obscene profit. \par \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 This was mostly th}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307 \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 e principal source }{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307\charrsid10970377 \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 for the \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 legendary Piper fortune. }{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307 \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 }{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307\charrsid10970377 \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 It was a huge unimaginable pie in those days, but as the next generation of my family began to nibble away at it, the }{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307 \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 massive hoard of }{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307\charrsid10970377 \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 loot started to get }{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307 \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 slow}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307\charrsid10970377 \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 ly carved up. \par \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 Grandfather loved to make money. He also loved to get a \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 piece or two of ass and was married four different times and had a stable of }{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307 \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 nearly a dozen }{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307\charrsid10970377 \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 acknowledged mistresses on the side as well. He was also legendary for preying upon his female factory workers and bending them to his will, figurative and literal\hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 ly. "}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\f39\fs24\insrsid14232307\charrsid16481673 \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 Put out or pack out!}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307\charrsid10970377 \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 " would have been his motto. Most women with a husband overseas often had no choice but to 'put }{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307 \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 out' rather than }{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307\charrsid10970377 \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 lose their good paying wartime factory job, especially if they had young children to s}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307 \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 upport alone, or worse, w}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307\charrsid10970377 \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 ere a}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307 \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 n \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 emotionally }{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307\charrsid10970377 \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 vulnerable widow. \par \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 In the end there were ten acknowledged direct heirs, my father being the seventh and youngest son. Most also inherited grandfather's love of procreation and my father, aunts and uncles all enjoyed a chain cycle of marriage, \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 extra-marital affairs }{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307 \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 (and off-spring) }{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307\charrsid10970377 \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 and divorce. }{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307 \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 }{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307\charrsid10970377 \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 Today even a simple family reunion brings in over one hundred folks. My own father, married and divorced three times, had six children, myself being the last. When added up in total, that's a lot of pi\hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 e slices to go around, for boarding schools, }{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307 \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 expensive cars, }{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307\charrsid10970377 \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 college, weddings, divorce settlements, etc. }{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307 \par }{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307\charrsid10970377 \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 My Aunt Millicent (don't you dare call her Millie!) is the oldest living of Grandfather's children and she\hich\f39 \rquote \loch\f39 s the ruling}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307 \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 matriarch, manag}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307\charrsid10970377 \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 ing the vast \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 majority of the family stock and the trust fund shares with an iron hand. Probably a good thing too, otherwise we'd all be broke by now. \par \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 There is an old but true saying; the best way to make a small fortune is to start with a large fortune. This is pret\hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 ty much what my father and his older brothers accomplished during their reign over our family enterprises during the 1950's to the late 1970's. They could just about keep }{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307 \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 the accounts still running in the black}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307\charrsid10970377 \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 , but the days of record profits were over. \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 \hich\f39 They kept the financial boat afloat at least, barely\'85\loch\f39 not that they particularly much noticed. \hich\f39 \lquote \loch\f39 Business\hich\f39 \rquote \loch\f39 interfered with their social activities at the local Country Club. \par \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 With the introduction of their own enormous brood of children into the family work\hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 force, the adage of shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves in three generations started to become fact rather than }{ \rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307 \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 mere }{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307\charrsid10970377 \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 mythology. Slowly, our vast enterprise of under-supervised and poorly managed plants began to each lose money and slowly most of them were now so\hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 ld off one by one, the money mostly disappearing into the maintenance of family personal finances or ill-advised }{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307 \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 high-risk/high-reward }{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307\charrsid10970377 \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 ventures on the stock market. \par \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 I look at my brothers, sisters, nieces, nephews, and hordes of ill-mannered cousins and I s\hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 ee nothing except greed, sloth and waste. Most are now a major cause of our current family problems and few show any talent towards being part of any solution. Linda noticed this about my family right from the first. I agreed with her then in principle ,\hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 but I didn't quite then realize exactly how really bad things were likely to become.}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307 \par \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 Where the younger generation of my relatives }{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307\charrsid10970377 \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 had }{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307 \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 mostly all }{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307\charrsid10970377 \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 earned \hich\f39 \lquote \loch\f39 gentleman's C's\hich\f39 \rquote }{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307 \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 (or worse)}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307\charrsid10970377 \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 , I graduated Cum Laude at my local Midwestern state university and }{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307 \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 this ea\hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 rned me a trip to }{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307\charrsid10970377 \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 the family alma-mater Ivy League graduate school on a trust fund}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307 \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 expense account}{ \rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307\charrsid10970377 \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 . }{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307 \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 I }{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307\charrsid10970377 \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 earn}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307 \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 ed top honors getting my }{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307\charrsid10970377 \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 MBA as well}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307 \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 and suddenly I found myself being of considerable interest to our family matriarch, and I now found myself being\hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 groomed for management of part of the family enterprises.}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307\charrsid10970377 \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 }{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307 \par }{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307\charrsid10970377 \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 I could have worked for any corporation in the country, and I certainly had no shortage of top notch job offers, but I }{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307 \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 dutifully }{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307\charrsid10970377 \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 returned home to }{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307 \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 begin work at }{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307\charrsid10970377 \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 the family businesses. I }{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307 \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 was remin\hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 ded constantly that I }{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307\charrsid10970377 \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 had }{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307 \loch\af39\dbch\af37\hich\f39 \lquote }{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\f39\fs24\insrsid14232307\charrsid16481673 \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 duties and obligations}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307 \loch\af39\dbch\af37\hich\f39 \rquote }{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307\charrsid10970377 \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 in retur}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307 \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 n for the costs of my schooling and i}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307\charrsid10970377 \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 n those days I was still trying to 'fit in' and do what was expected of me. \par \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 Being a youngest son of a youngest son, even my success at gaining a legitimate an\hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 d meaningful MBA degree didn't earn me any particular favors}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307 \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 , but I was certain that Aunt Millicent was keeping an unusually sharp eye on me}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307\charrsid10970377 \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 . I was the apparently the brains of our youngest generation, but I was also near to being the very youngest and lo\hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 uder (but more inept) voices tended to get what crumbs were left from the cake. I was assigned the management and operation of the old historical pickling plant, which frankly was only available because it was beneath the notice of all of my other more s \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 e\hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 nior relatives. }{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307 \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 It was also in the worst shape of any of our businesses, deeply in the financial red and destined for either bankruptcy or sale. I\hich\f39 \rquote \loch\f39 m sure now my Aunt assigned this disaster to me on purpose, to see just what a bit of family brains could \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 do, but at the time I thought it was a lost cause.}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307\charrsid10970377 \par \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 It took a few years but I turned }{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307 \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 that}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307\charrsid10970377 \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 obsolete plant that was otherwise destined for the scrap heap and renovated it into the largest }{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307 \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 modernized }{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307\charrsid10970377 \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 pickle plant in the Midwest. You can find Piper's Pickles n\hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 ow in every supermarket in the country. It took a deal with the devil, Sam Walton, to save the plant in those dark early days when I traded increased production in return for }{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307 \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 \hich\f39 delivery contract terms that were virtually highway robbery\'85\loch\f39 but stopped the flo\hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 w of red ink.}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307\charrsid10970377 \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 This let us catch our breath and renovate the facility enough to become competitive in the commercial market again, and eventually now become an industry leader.}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307 \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 We still sell our pickles in Wally-World and Sam\hich\f39 \rquote \loch\f39 \hich\f39 s\'85\loch\f39 but on slightly more favor\hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 able terms now.} {\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307\charrsid10970377 \par \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 Then I had to make another deal with another devil to keep it - Aunt Millicent. \par }\pard \ltrpar\qc \li0\ri0\sa200\sl276\slmult1\widctlpar\wrapdefault\aspalpha\aspnum\faauto\adjustright\rin0\lin0\itap0\pararsid14232307 {\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307\charrsid10970377 \par \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 ***************** \par }\pard \ltrpar\ql \li0\ri0\sa200\sl276\slmult1\widctlpar\wrapdefault\aspalpha\aspnum\faauto\adjustright\rin0\lin0\itap0\pararsid14232307 {\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307\charrsid10970377 \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 The dear old battleaxe was frankly confused by my success and didn't quite know what to chalk it up to. Brains didn't run too deeply in my g\hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 eneration of the Piper veins }{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307 \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 (or the previous one) }{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307\charrsid10970377 \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 and sheer audacity hadn't been working too well for most of my other relatives either lately. }{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307 \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 }{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307\charrsid10970377 \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 She grudgingly admitted that I might have woven a silk purse from a sow's ear but a now profitable enterprise \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 was now far too valuable to be left in my much too junior and tender hands. She wanted to sell the }{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307 \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 now profitable }{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307\charrsid10970377 \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 plant for badly needed cash \hich\f39 \emdash \loch\f39 and she controlled more than enough family stock to sell it right out from under me. \par \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 Unless... I was to do the \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 family a tiny favor and get married. \par \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 My bride-to-be came attached with some attractive family enterprises that complimented our needs (}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307 \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 regional }{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307\charrsid10970377 \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 agricultural distribution and trucking primarily) and the alliance would bring my family a dowry of some much n\hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 eeded cash and a no-interest loan that was even more }{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307 \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 desperately }{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307\charrsid10970377 \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 needed. There were more than a few rumors that her family was up to its neck in organized crime and labor union organization racketeering. Not surprisingly, these defects were considered by\hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 most of my family to be 'advantages'. \par \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 One of my older brothers had originally been tasked for this most unpleasant family duty, but he had the foresight to escalate his drug use and habitual tendency to drive }{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307 \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 drunk (at least six DUI\hich\f39 \rquote \loch\f39 s so far)}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307\charrsid10970377 \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 , making hims \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 elf politically an unacceptable match between }{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307 \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 the families. Lucky bastard! That should s}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307\charrsid10970377 \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 erve me right for being 'responsible'.}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307 \par \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 No good deed (or tendancy towards good behavior) goes unpunished!}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307\charrsid10970377 \par \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 My bride to be, the former Livonia Parker, was no great prize\hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 either. Oh, she looked alright dolled up and nine times out of ten could avoid saying anything blatantly foolish when she opened her mouth, but she was definitely no \hich\f39 \lquote \loch\f39 Linda' and we never hit it off. Even from our first meeting, I could tell that she was\hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 going to be very high maintenance and didn't care a bit about what my job managing the pickle plant was like. She\hich\f39 \rquote \loch\f39 d never worked a day in her life and never wanted to. Her life already at the }{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307 \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 tender }{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307\charrsid10970377 \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 young age of twenty-three }{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307 \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 already }{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307\charrsid10970377 \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 revolved around the c\hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 ocktail and dinner party circuit of our social peers, with weekends}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307 \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 spent}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307\charrsid10970377 \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 at the Country Club or at various family estates. Being myself }{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307 \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 of}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307\charrsid10970377 \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 the ripe age of thirty, I already bored her to tears. \par \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 I sadly and very unhappily made the deal with the devil to sa\hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 ve the pickle plant... and also to get control of the 'Fred and Ginger Dance School' (F&G) chain. This was another formerly profitable property that had been neglected and allowed to run down into near dissolution and was now }{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307 \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 also }{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307\charrsid10970377 \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 at the brink of bankrupt\hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 cy. \par \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 Why did I sacrifice myself and fall deliberately upon this most unhappy hand-grenade that already seemed guaranteed to make my domestic life a joyless torture to be endured?}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307 \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 }{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307\charrsid10970377 \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 When I took over the plant originally in its failing days I had less than one \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 hundred employees, and now I had nearly eight hundred people that I felt responsibility for. }{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307 \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 }{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307\charrsid10970377 \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 Most, if not all, would lose their jobs if the plant were to be sold as planned. At best there would be severe layoffs and pay cuts and I didn't think I wanted \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 to be the one responsible for that, even if I had to be the sacrificial lamb necessary in order to save them.}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307 \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 \hich\f39 Besides that\'85\loch\f39 I }{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\f39\fs24\insrsid14232307\charrsid14158470 \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 loved}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307 \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 that old pickle plant and really wanted nothing more in life than to gently guide and manage that old lady into another hu\hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 ndred years of success and prosperity!}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307\charrsid10970377 \par \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 Also by now}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307 ,}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307\charrsid10970377 \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 I }{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307 \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 had realized }{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307\charrsid10970377 \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 in my heart of hearts that I needed some sort of }{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307 \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 permanent }{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307\charrsid10970377 \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 escape and independence from my dysfunctional and rather perverse family. Obviously this was not going to be a love match; it was\hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 a pure business deal. Everyone, including me, could get something that they wanted and we'd all just try to make the best out of it. I certainly didn't love her, I didn't even particularly }{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\f39\fs24\insrsid14232307\charrsid14158470 \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 like}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307\charrsid10970377 \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 her... but since Linda had left my life and was already mar \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 ried to someone else, I might as well get marr}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307 \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 ied too and get on with life. I\hich\f39 \rquote \loch\f39 d t}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307\charrsid10970377 \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 \hich\f39 ake this bullet for my employees and family independence, I decided\'85\loch\f39 besides, at worst I could divorce her in just a few years - }{ \rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307 \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 I hoped!}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307\charrsid10970377 \par \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 I had an old school friend draw up t\hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 he legal contract with my Aunt and he did a bang-up job. We tried to plug up every loophole either of us could conceive of and solidified our core minimum demands}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307 \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 for my sacrifice}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307\charrsid10970377 . \par {\listtext\pard\plain\ltrpar \rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \f3\insrsid14232307\charrsid10970377 \loch\af3\dbch\af37\hich\f3 \'b7\tab}}\pard \ltrpar\ql \fi-360\li360\ri0\sa200\sl276\slmult1 \widctlpar\wrapdefault\aspalpha\aspnum\faauto\ls1\adjustright\rin0\lin360\itap0\pararsid14232307 {\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307\charrsid10970377 \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 100% control of Piper Pickles. Ownership deed, lock, stock and every sing\hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 le pickle barrel! Promise of perpetual preferential shipping rates (via my darling bride's family) at a guaranteed minimum of 33% discount over established base industry rates, contracted for a duration of at least five years, with an automatic renewal u \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 n\hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 less malfeasance could be proven by a third-party arbitrator, who could assign civil penalties if our contract was unilaterally cancelled[canceled] or altered. \par {\listtext\pard\plain\ltrpar \rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \f3\insrsid14232307\charrsid10970377 \loch\af3\dbch\af37\hich\f3 \'b7\tab}\hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 Promise of non-interference in our labor-management relations. (We already had a local labor uni\hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 on that we were comfortable working with and I wanted the bride's family thugs kept far away). Agreement to }{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307 \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 bind }{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307\charrsid10970377 \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 significant civil }{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307 \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 financial }{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307\charrsid10970377 \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 penalties if the arbitrator found any misbehavior or interference here either. \par {\listtext\pard\plain\ltrpar \rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \f3\insrsid14232307\charrsid10970377 \loch\af3\dbch\af37\hich\f3 \'b7\tab}\hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 Non-Refundable transfer, sale and 1\hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 00% control of the F&G chain from my older sister's folio for the total sum of }{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307 \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 one ($1)}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307\charrsid10970377 \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 dollar. My sister had never once set foot into the place \hich\f39 \emdash \loch\f39 you couldn't score any cocaine there apparently and the dance music was too boring to disco to! Again, all }{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\f39\fs24\insrsid14232307\charrsid14158470 \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 mine}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307\charrsid10970377 \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 \hich\f39 \endash \loch\f39 }{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307 \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 family }{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307\charrsid10970377 \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 hands off! \par {\listtext\pard\plain\ltrpar \rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \f3\insrsid14232307\charrsid10970377 \loch\af3\dbch\af37\hich\f3 \'b7\tab}\hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 A carved in stone heavy duty Prenuptial Agreement with no expiration date that heavily penalized either offending marital partner in the event of proven adultery or upon the conviction of a felony crime. }{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307 \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 A \hich\f39 \lquote \loch\f39 No-Fault\hich\f39 \rquote \loch\f39 Divorce could\hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 be granted after five years if no children had resulted from the union, or after ten years if there were children. Alimony would be granted for a maximum of five years and Child Support maintenance offered until their eighteenth birthday(s).}{ \rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307\charrsid10970377 \par {\listtext\pard\plain\ltrpar \rtlch\fcs1 \af0 \ltrch\fcs0 \f3\insrsid14232307\charrsid10970377 \loch\af3\dbch\af37\hich\f3 \'b7\tab}\hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 Last, my 'un\hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 derstanding' with Aunt Millicent that this was my last and }{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\f39\fs24\insrsid14232307\charrsid5463113 \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 final}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307 \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 duty for Queen and Country}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307\charrsid10970377 \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 ... and my family. Hereafter}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307 ,}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307\charrsid10970377 \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 I would be free to work and pursue my own flavor of happiness without needing to get permission every time I needed to take a piss. M\hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 y loving family could all go fuck themselves \hich\f39 \emdash \loch\f39 I wanted my walking papers. \par }\pard \ltrpar\ql \li0\ri0\sa200\sl276\slmult1\widctlpar\wrapdefault\aspalpha\aspnum\faauto\adjustright\rin0\lin0\itap0\pararsid14232307 {\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307\charrsid10970377 \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 Oh, there was howling, screaming, wailing and much gnashing of teeth, but I got my conditions. }{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307 \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 }{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307\charrsid10970377 \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 Every single one of them. \par }{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307 \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 In the end, the}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307\charrsid10970377 \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 release for a \hich\f39 \lquote \loch\f39 no-fault\hich\f39 \rquote \loch\f39 divorce after fi\hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 ve years }{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307 \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 was almost a deal-buster. T}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307\charrsid10970377 \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 he bastards }{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307 \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 wanted to hold me firm}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307\charrsid10970377 \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 to the date of the eighteenth birthday of our youngest child. }{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307 \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 }{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307\charrsid10970377 \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 Non-negotiable! }{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307 \par \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 No and hell no! Even to save my beloved plant, t}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307\charrsid10970377 \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 his was a much longer term of captivity than I had ho \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 ped or planned for, and this was a deal-breaker for me}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307 \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 ! My}{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307\charrsid10970377 \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 Aunt played hardball and put it up for immediate cash sale. }{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307 \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 My workers called for an immediate strike and they all walked out on my behalf! No buyer wants to take over a place certain t\hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 o have lingering labor problems and they stayed away in droves. My Aunt and my new in-laws}{ \rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307\charrsid10970377 \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 blinked and surrendered first. \par }\pard \ltrpar\qc \li0\ri0\sa200\sl276\slmult1\widctlpar\wrapdefault\aspalpha\aspnum\faauto\adjustright\rin0\lin0\itap0\pararsid14232307 {\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307\charrsid10970377 \par }{\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \i\f39\fs24\insrsid14232307\charrsid5463113 \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 ******************** \par }\pard \ltrpar\ql \li0\ri0\sa200\sl276\slmult1\widctlpar\wrapdefault\aspalpha\aspnum\faauto\adjustright\rin0\lin0\itap0\pararsid14232307 {\rtlch\fcs1 \af0\afs24 \ltrch\fcs0 \f39\fs24\insrsid14232307\charrsid10970377 \hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 I won't discuss the wedding, except that I upheld my end and showed up for it. Disturbingly sober, I presented\hich\af39\dbch\af37\loch\f39 myself willingly for the slaughter so that nearly a thousand employees would still have a paycheck next Friday. 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