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Orchidflower · 02-11-2008, 01:40 PM

Gene's mother did have some big backbone on her. Lord...what will MY son say about me? (Please don't let him become famous and start telling his "stories" about me...because he has more than one.)
Interesting that McCain has doesn't say much about his mother.
I can tell you from working with the late Senator Everett Dirksen (and being the one he dictated his autobiography to, which Mrs. D make into "Me and Mr. Marigold") that he WORSHIPED his mother. When he spoke of her it was like he was transfixed into another planet much like Gene Simmon's is told of doing. Dirksen's father was the town drunk, I think; mother raised 2 boys and one set of twins (Everett was a twin) by herself. Pretty poor, I gathered, from what he said.

02-11-2008, 01:40 PM	#28
Orchidflower Thinks s/he gets paid by the post Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Illinois-Iowa border town on the 'Ole Mississippi River Posts: 1,680	Gene's mother did have some big backbone on her. Lord...what will MY son say about me? (Please don't let him become famous and start telling his "stories" about me...because he has more than one.) Interesting that McCain has doesn't say much about his mother. I can tell you from working with the late Senator Everett Dirksen (and being the one he dictated his autobiography to, which Mrs. D make into "Me and Mr. Marigold") that he WORSHIPED his mother. When he spoke of her it was like he was transfixed into another planet much like Gene Simmon's is told of doing. Dirksen's father was the town drunk, I think; mother raised 2 boys and one set of twins (Everett was a twin) by herself. Pretty poor, I gathered, from what he said.