To Ryan O’Neal

Dear Mr. O’Neal,

It appears that you and your wife (hope I can call her that) were both stalwart during cancer and the dying process.  I went through it a few months ago with my mom and she wasn’t public about it.  I couldn’t watch but a few moments of Farrah’s video because things are still too raw for me.

Please accept condolences for you and your family.  Farrah’s work after Angels was incredible, I guess the hair got in the way.  And her beauty.  She reminds me a bit, acting-wise, of a young Norma Jean Baker.

Sincerely, Dee

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Leave it to Michael Jackson to steal her thunder with a death worthy of something he or his sister Janet choreographed.  So everything’s about him now.  What worries me is that he was only a few months older than me.  But then again I don’t have my own personal physician who prescribes me multiple meds.

I bought teen beat when I was 12 and Michael Jackson was in it (so what) but so was Bobby Sherman and David Cassidy.  Mikey was just a kid like me, and these guys were older and “dreamy.”

Singer and dancer, definitely.  Gifted, yes.  Troubled, that’s a given.  I remember when he was Black.  All I can think of his kids.  Then I think about the long fight that Farrah and my mother had and wonder why everyone will be at the gates of that rental house forever.  I’d hate to be the owner there.  Dee

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