Donna Thompson asked John Rachel:

Hi John Rachel Gosh, I wished I'd known I received this message from you two years ago. I got it just now today Sept. 10th 2017. I see we've got things in common such as the appreciation of the great novelist Kurt Vonnegut. And Philosophy. Why didn't you seek an Author for a wife for better communications? My book The Compilations of Foresta Gump listed here but my cover design wasn't added.

John Rachel I don't believe in rushing things. Sometime even in person, I wait two years to answer a question. It can get awkward. Once it happened in a restaurant. Before I answered, the place declared bankruptcy, closed down, the building got demolished. We had to move when they started pouring cement foundations for the Pet Smart they were building on the site of the former restaurant -- it was Belgian-French cuisine if I recall correctly. In any case, I never got to answer the question. One year, eleven months and 17 days before the two years were up, the person who asked it suffered a brain hemorrhage, her eyes rolled up in her head, and she collapsed into a limp heap right in front of me. By then, we had moved under the awning of a convenience store, next to a pay phone which was missing the handset. Wow! It's coming back to me now, what she wanted to know. She had asked me if I were assaulted by fraternal twins wielding leather straps and brass knuckles, how would I feel? If she'd just stuck around a couple more weeks, she would have gotten my reply: "Beats me!"

I like being married to someone who doesn't understand what I'm saying. I think it increases the odds our marriage will last.

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