And now another crazy tale about my mother...

Sean says...

Claire Danes...or Suzanne Duckworth?

Stefan and I were talking this evening and the conversation came around to the crazy antics of my mother, Jacque, at various times of her life. Fellow neighbor Duck told a hysterical story in his blog about a case of mistaken identity that he and his partner Trent experienced while out on the town. Well! Stefan reminded me about how Jacque has her own tale!

I will never forget taking Mom in January 2003 to see The Hours with Meryl Streep, Nicole Kidman, and Julianne Moore. In the middle of a dramatic scene between Moore and Claire Danes, Mom started pointing at the screen anxiously and miserably failed at whispering "It's Suzanne Duckworth!" After calming her down and pointing out that she was not whispering but talking in an outdoor voice, I informed her it was NOT my sister Holly's girlhood friend Suzanne but Danes. To this day I don't think she beleives me despite the evidence to the contrary and the telling of this tale many times at parties.

So to Suzanne wherever you are, here is to you! Jacque remembers!