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[quote=Anonymous]Many years later I am going to talk about this:  I worked with Warren, Laura's brother. We shared an office at a small Quaker school. I remember the day he realized she hadn't returned home and he had no idea where she could be. He was frantic. Penny, their mother was off on a spirituality treck in Virginia (?) and couldn't be reached. Penny had befriended Clarke and he was regularly welcome in their house. I've learned the hard way that mentally ill people are just fine so long as they're on meds and under a doctor's care. But this guy had serious, much more crippling problems that appeared to be familial. He became crazed with jealousy when Laura came home from Harvard to live. I sat on those stairs in Penny's house at Warren and Pam's engagement party and wondered how Penny could have been so careless about having this crazed guy in her house. She was a flakey woman, apparently a psychologist or social worker, and the family made known their Roosevelt connections while at the same time scorned all entitlement. But Penny had NO smarts about people. All that Quaker spirituality and Silent Retreats among like-minded untutored "therapists."   Warren died just as his father had: Too young from heart disease. Let us hope his children are under the care of a good cardiologist to help them evade the same curse. Damn it! Penny seemed to just not care? Or was she mentally ill in her own precious way? I miss you, Warren! Please rest in peace, darling friend.[/quote]

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