Marilyn was ane of us

The scene: Me, at a lovely local spa for the get-go time. Dim lighting, soft music playing, comfortable reclining pedicure chair, mug of soothing herbal tea inside reach. Enjoying a relaxing manicure & pedicure, courtesy of a gift certificate I received. One other 50-something adult woman inward the room, too getting a mani-pedi -- every bit she explained, for her son's marriage the adjacent day.

Mom (looking upward at large framed photograph of Marilyn Monroe inward her prime, hanging on the wall): That's a corking photograph of her! How one-time was she when she died?

Pedicurist: I hollo back she was 36.

Mom: She didn't convey whatever kids, did she? That's SO sad!  (Didn't grab everything she said next, but it seemed to survive something along the lines of what else gives life pregnant if you lot don't convey kids?)(Or perchance I'm merely projecting...??)  She was married 2 or 3 times, wasn't she? Of course, at that age... most people inward those days had kids actually young...

I felt myself tensing upward & mentally rolling my eyes. So much for the relaxing mood...!  

But she moved on to to a greater extent than or less other topic -- give cheers goodness!!

(And too give cheers goodness, nobody asked me virtually MY kids spell I was there...!)

(For the record, Marilyn was married 3 times, including to baseball game corking Joe DiMaggio in addition to playwright Arthur Miller. And no, she didn't convey whatever children. But she desperately wanted them, struggled to conceive, suffered from endometriosis, in addition to endured several miscarriages, including an ectopic pregnancy.)
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