Fairly Honest Bill is back!

At BG’s request, he was kind enough to offer this noble, wrenching epilogue:

Suzanne was the smartest & most beautiful woman I ever met, even to this day. I wear or own 2 pieces of jewelry, period: a ring with 3 small diamonds that I loaned a friend $20.00 & he could buy it back at anytime so I wear it in case he ever shows up (been 11 years) & the watch Suzanne gave me in 1983.

8 days before we were to be married, with both family & friends in town, the police found out that I had been deported 3 times for working with out a work visa & arrested me. She came to see me in jail. I told her that she worked so hard to become a lawyer & had a career ahead of her, it was best that I should go back to the states & she should claim that I was just a bad boy  boyfriend that never told her about my past. We left it at “We would talk one more time after I got deported.” Well we never did have that talk.

I Google her name every week  for anything new but all I know is she a director of a shelter for battered Women in British Columbia. I don’t know if she ever married or not. I’ve set aside a little money everyday so that if we ever have that talk she promised I would have some  money for her to make up for any damage I did to her career. Maybe someday she will walk through my front door & ring that bell again.

Oh Bill! We hope she does. And we know she’s not the only one who’ll be drawn to your singular, sincere charms. Remember the original Cortina Principle, whence this all began: “Take a close look at yourself, then take a good look around — you’ll be surprised by how much you have in common with other people, and how much there is to talk about.”