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Date Posted: 12:24:48 12/02/09 Wed
Author: celtgirl
Subject: Just remember this was your suggestion, Miss Carla- Delerium Africanus- Part Two, The CBF Years>>>
In reply to: Carla 's message, "Ah, stream of consciousness is a wonderful thing :) I would be happy to teach childbirth education classes in Africa if it will get Brad Pitt and George Clooney to come visit me. Do you think Colin might be interested too? On a more serious note, Ash (my stepdad) grew up in Uganda and would happily answer questions if you have any about said country. Of course, then you might start talking about motorcycles and find that Jamie must have one of those, or perhaps building embassies and Casey will end up with the contract to build the Irish embassy in some far flung place while Pamela snaps pictures of children in local dress . . . . ." on 10:53:32 12/02/09 Wed

One day you are approached via letter by an actor who is coming to Africa to research his part in a movie about a boy who is raised by gorillas and is then captured and forced to live amongst humans. Because you live on a remote mountaintop in Rwanda/Uganda, he wonders if he might visit and soak in the atmosphere, meet some of the gorillas you've spent years studying and saving.

What? You're on a mountaintop in Rwanda/Uganda- how did that happen? You sigh, obviously you have succumbed to a very virulent strain of Delerium Africanus and have forgotten the transition years between the clinic and here. It is said to strike women of a certain age very hard. You accept the fact that you may never fully recall certain details in your life, like how you became an ethnobotanist/wildlife specialist. Still, no matter, you write and tell the actor he is welcome to your small encampment.

He arrives bearing gifts- a flat of Diet Coke, a 12 pack of Amstel Lite, and a jar of La Mer face cream. This is a man that understands women- you see this immediately. He is also somewhat attractive, though you have sworn off mad affairs since that whole George Clooney business.

He settles in for a long stay, you put him in the small hut just down the pathway from yours. But most evenings he ends up by the fire in your hut, he is rather charming you admit. Days are spent with the gorillas, where you observe the actor's gentle nature, if somewhat colourful language. The young female, Lucy, seems particularly enamoured of him, you cannot blame her. It is pleasant to have company in the evenings, for it can be lonely on a misty African mountaintop with only the sound of the wind in the hagenias and the company of your three-legged dingo.

Lulled by the actor's presence you have forgotten that a documentary film crew from National Geographic is due on your mountaintop to film you with the gorillas. They arrive and though you worry that the actor will see this as an invasion of his privacy, he doesn't seem to mind in the least. The film, when it is released causes your pictures and his to be splashed across the gutter press with lurid headlines like 'Irish Actor has Gorilla Woman Lover'.

The truth is you have embarked on a mad affair- dare you say 'volcanic'? But can it last? Sadly, you think not- the locals call the actor 'Man of Much Abundance and Many Women' (except they say it much more poetically in Swahili) and you have heard rumours about him and that red-haired vixen that now runs the clinic.

But you put these worries aside, afterall you will always have your gorillas and your memories, your Nobel Peace Prize and the upcoming feature film about your life and loves. You have heard rumours that Robert Redford is set to direct. Each time the actor leaves your mountaintop, you wonder if you will ever see him again...but you are not one to cling and in the words of a Frenchwoman that you once knew, you live by this adage:

Je ne regrette rien...

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