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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I expected to see Jimothy Oliver on that list.  [/quote]

Jimothy's mother went to a card reader at the local fair when she was a young woman, and asked her how she could marry her boyfriend. She was told she should not marry him, that he was not the right man for her. "But I want him," said Jimothy's mother. The card reader dramatically wiped all the cards toward her, collected them in a big pile and said, "Then you shall have him."

Soon it was true -- she married Mr. Oliver and within a year they had a boy. They named him Jimothy, in honor of the man's grandfather, Timothy, who was a bit daft and couldn't pronounce his own name correctly.

Jimothy was a perfectly normal baby, or so it seemed, and yet he always had a faraway look in his eyes, as if he were seeing something of grave importance just over your shoulder. He was such a serious baby it made people turn and look, and swear they saw something off in the distance, something they couldn't put their finger on.

The second part of the card reader's prophecy also came true -- Mr. Oliver was not the right man for Mrs. Oliver, and when Jimothy was a wee lad they divorced. Raised by a single mother, he had plenty of time on his hands -- and no one to protect him from the neighborhood bullies. He often came home bruised and dirty, and had to clean his bloodied knees by himself. He grew quite adept at it and grew up to become a respected doctor. But he never lost the faraway look in his eyes. One night he was arrested for being a peeping tom. When asked by the judge why he had done it, he said, most people don't bother looking. They only see the outside.[/quote]

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