I detest all monarchies and I mean all

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58. Once upon a time I would have agreed

But then I lived with a woman for five years who opened my eyes to many things. She had the highest grades ever at our law school by a decent margin. She clerked at the Supreme Court. You would think the anonymous grades were simply due to her brilliance and hard work. But they were more. She explained that she figured out what a professor wanted to hear. She became friends with teachers and got to know what they thought. She did not write answers she thought were best but instead wrote answers she knew fit the world view of the teacher. In my opinion she learned to read people because her parents were cruel and she had to read their minds to avoid angering them. She was not unusually attractive but had some amazing lovers. A beautiful guy for instance who was in the Vermont legislature tho only 21 years old. I never suspected, figuring he would not be interested in her. I came to understand that some people can create the world they want. Millions wanted to marry William but only one did. When it was announced that William would attend St Andrews Kate changed colleges to go there. Her childhood room had his photo, she had always been in love with him. Having seen someone who could achieve anything, who explained to me precisely how she did it, how she figured out what a person would think and how they would respond, I am afraid I suspect they did not just happen to meet and then fell in love. And with time I understand that that is not a bad thing. I do not think Bill Clinton became President by accident. Arkansas did not have the highest job growth of all states by accident. The US did not have the greatest job growth during the Clinton years of the G20 by accident.

Some people see the world more deeply than others and figure out how to create circumstances which they want.

Meghan, just engaged. Read about her. You will find she is good friends with an amazing number of interesting, important people. Arianna Huffington is good friends with just about every important person on earth. My roommate before law school was in a religious cult with her and he told me some things she said to the women there about how to find and marry a rich husband, which she then did. Now this sounds calculating, and it is. But this is not a bad thing, this is how many wonderful things come to happen. It was not chance alone that got Thurgood Marshall to broaden his views from race discrimination to sex discrimination, it was also a very clever young woman he called sugar who slept in his bathtub at the Supreme Court because she had too much work to do to make the world better than to go home to sleep. This is not a bad thing, this wonderful Kate Middleton.