What Color Is Your Parachute?

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The drawings on the print page vi-vii, 43, 57, 201, 248, 248-249 are by Steven M. Johnson, author of
What the World Needs Now.
Illustration on print page 71 by Beverly Anderson.

eISBN: 978-1-60774-038-4

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The wonderful actress
Anne Bancroft (1931–2005) was once
loosely quoted as saying
about her husband, Mel Brooks,
My heart flutters whenever I hear his key
Turning in the door, and I think to myself,
Oh goody, the party is about to begin.

That is exactly how I feel
about my wife,
Marci Garcia Mendoza Bolles,
God’s angel from the Philippines,
whom I fell deeply in love with, and married
on August 22, 2004.

What an enchanted marriage this is!