Carni ...long

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I'm not sure how to say this, don't want to sound like I am name dropping.

Carni is a cousin of mine. I use to be married to her Dad's 1st cousin back

in the 60's/70's. He was also the manager of the Beach Boys. Anyway, I

haven't seen Carni since she was about 6 yrs old. She was doing a concert

near me with Al Jardine (Beach Boy) this past Thursday nite. We went to see

it and I spent about an hour with her and her sister afterwards. It

was really wonderful to hear all about the family (her mom Marilyn and I use

to be very close). I had moved around so much after my divorce I eventually

lost touch with everyone.

Carni's husband Rob was there and is a warm, sweet guy. They are obviously

very much in love. Carni is the same as when she was a little girl. Warm,

sweet and very down to earth. What a personality!!

We spoke at length about WLS. She is very active in the WLS community. She

was " presented " at the Bariatric Convention last month in D.C. to a standing

ovation. I don't think it had much to do with her loosing so much weight as

for what it did for the Bariatric community. She has made WLS so much more

accepted. I gave her a big hug and thanked her for that. However, when she

asked me where/when I had the surgery and I told her I had the MGB she went

balistic. She scared my dear husband! We talked for awhile about it and she

calmed down. She was obviously not happy. I plan to keep in touch with her

to let her know how well I am doing over the years. I hope to change her

mind. I asked her if she ever read CLOS and she had not. This is how thing

get blown out of proportion I said. I asked her to read it.

My husband (Carl) took a few fotos of us and when I get them developed I will

send one to Tricia to post, since I don't have a scanner I need your snail

mail address Tricia.

Hope to see you all at the picnic.

Joni