I wasn’t going to write about the late Anna Nicole Smith, or Vickie, as some of her friends called her. But she was a Texas girl, and so maybe it’s fitting. She liked to be compared to Marilyn Monroe, but, as others have pointed out, Marilyn was smarter and more talented, and she also had an affair with a former president. No, not Clinton. Another Democrat. JudyAnn, of Just Muttering, concluded from watching the talking heads discuss ANS that she "entrusted her business as well as herself to people with the trustworthiness of tumbleweeds." Even one of her former high school teachers doesn’t like to analyze her, except to indicate (via his brother) that people in Mexia (muh-HAY-ah), a little country town northeast of Waco, are kind of ashamed of her. Oh, I don’t know. She wasn’t any trashier than the rest of the mindless celebs of American pop culture. Maybe she was even a little bit classier, if only because, being from a small place like Mexia, where she had worked at a local carryout joint, she probably knew all along what people really thought of her. Hopefully the daughter she left behind, over whom several claiming-to-be fathers are squabbling in hopes of getting some of the money ANS fought so long for from her deceased 89-year-old Houston husband, will be able to grow up with some semblance of a normal life. Hopefully.
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