Soccer Dad

How to open doors with just a smile

Israelly Cool! and Dr. Helen object to the viciousness directed towards Anna Nicole Smith.

Larry Miller humanizes her a bit.

As I walked away from their table I turned around and took one more look back, and they had returned to . . . I don't know. Just being there, I guess. Two people smiling, as happy as could be. I don't know what they could've talked about. He didn't speak English, and, I'm sorry, but I think it's a fairly safe bet she didn't speak Arabic.

I didn't know that her step-son didn't outlive his father by that much as Miller recounts.

Similarly, you had to have known she married the rich old guy a dozen-or-so years ago and was unpleasantly embroiled ever since with his first loving family over--what a shock--the money. When I heard the old fellow passed away, I read about his son suing her over the will, and I remember thinking, "His son? What is he, 60?" Sixty-seven, it turns out, and he's gone now himself.

As my wife (and Dr. Helen) note, the person to feel bad for is her infant daughter. With lots of money attached to her and uncertain paternity she is going to be sought after for the wrong reasons. Named for a brother she never knew by a woman who can no longer grieve Dannie Lynn, still an infant, has the potential for a very unhappy life.

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