Slog - Comments on From the Dept of Blind Love http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/from_the_dept_of_blind_love Regarding Raymond Chandler and his first wife: "Cissy was a raging beauty, a strawberry blonde with skin I used to love to touch," Chandler would say later. "I don't know how I ever managed to get her." It took awhile: Cissy, twice-married, a former New York model who liked to do housework in the nude, kept him at arm's length at first. Cissy and Chandler didn't marry until 1924, when Chandler's mother—with whom he'd been living—died at last from an agonizing cancer. Only then, or a little later, did Chandler learn that Cissy was not eight years older than him,... Copyright 2008 Mon, 12 Nov 2007 15:14:03 -0800 Mon, 12 Nov 2007 22:05:20 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Mr. Poe Whoa, 18 years!!! That's nothin'.

]]> Mr. Poe http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/from_the_dept_of_blind_love#c847032 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/from_the_dept_of_blind_love#c847032 Books Mon, 12 Nov 2007 15:49:16 -0800 Comment by vooodooo84 hell i could see myself with someone 18 years my junior, as long as the State doesn't mind my sleeping with a 4 year old

]]> vooodooo84 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/from_the_dept_of_blind_love#c847042 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/from_the_dept_of_blind_love#c847042 Books Mon, 12 Nov 2007 16:00:19 -0800 Comment by Greg @2: Yeah, I think the state might have a problem with that.

]]> Greg http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/from_the_dept_of_blind_love#c847075 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/from_the_dept_of_blind_love#c847075 Books Mon, 12 Nov 2007 16:47:02 -0800 Comment by lilblackcat I'm only sad that they don't have a photo of her at the link.

]]> lilblackcat http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/from_the_dept_of_blind_love#c847091 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/from_the_dept_of_blind_love#c847091 Books Mon, 12 Nov 2007 17:05:34 -0800 Comment by vicky kennedy A 53 year old friend of mine married a 34 yo chick last year -- that age difference seems just right to him.

]]> vicky kennedy http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/from_the_dept_of_blind_love#c847291 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/11/from_the_dept_of_blind_love#c847291 Books Mon, 12 Nov 2007 22:05:20 -0800