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Phil Hampton's avatar

"Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely" - Lord Acton.

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Regina Freedman's avatar

Good application of wise words.

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Lynne Altus's avatar

People don’t change. They make changes, by choice. Did she believe in God?

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Regina Freedman's avatar

I don’t know if she was a believer. Her closest people around her said that she did what she would have done any day & the possibility of death did not influence her behavior at all. To me this story has multiple levels to it. Why is it that a number of wealthy people act as if they are poor? Then there is the hostility to those in service positions that raise more curiosity.

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Chris's avatar

I thought you were going to say that she prioritized God, stayed with the vine and produced her last earthly fruit through prayer and scripture. What a said story; I hope she behaved that way as a method to create normalcy the day before, a contrarian patient, a person living in fear, denial, worry.

Matthew 10:39 Whoever finds their life will lose it, and whoever loses their life for my sake will find it.

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Regina Freedman's avatar

She was considered a bully by people who knew her. She wore people down on a daily basis. Restaurant workers in the Jersey shore town cringed when she walked through the door. I just found it fascinating that she stayed the same even when faced with the possibility of death.

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Justin Sinclair's avatar

Oh my God so crazy. Absolute disconnection to reality.

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Regina Freedman's avatar

She was true to her nature & her reality up to the end.

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