Wednesday, March 21, 2007

---"But lottery winners become celebrities."
"Almost."
---"Of a sort. ... To their relatives and friends then."
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"I wonder what it's like to be the kind of celebrity people want to touch?"
---"You mean like rock stars?"
"Eeeuuw. no! I mean like kings, holy people, the President, the Pope...Mother Teresa."
---"Mother Teresa worked among the diseased and dying; outcasts no one wanted to look at or talk to, let alone touch."
"Oh."
---"You can be my celebrity Nadine."