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In reply to the discussion: Forty-seven years ago today, the world changed--a revisit and a revision of a seven year old post: [View all]DFW
(54,325 posts)As for my friends--my path and that of a few interesting people have crossed, it's true. With most of them, it just happened. Family connections, or a friend arranged a meet. With the political types--my dad was a prominent Washington print journalist for 50 years. When I was 6 years old, he used to take me with him sometimes to the US Senate Press Gallery. I thought it weird that where my friends were named Jimmy, Billy and Timmy, his friends were all named Senator. My first visit to a sitting president at the White House was to LBJ when I was 13. It just happened. My dad had to know all those guys for work.
One time, when I was in L.A. for a graduation, a friend asked if wanted to have lunch with Stan Lee. I said, sure, Stan Lee will have lunch with a peon like me. But he said he could put it together. And so he did. We had a great time, and we stayed friends. But it's like I said--paths crossing.