YEP, VIRGINIA, IT IS ALL TRUE!

I always knew it. From the Dispatch Article "3-4 Hours of Exercise May Fool Fat Gene". There it is, my friends, in black and white. The big admission. Yes, Virginia, there is a fat gene, AND all you have to do to beat it is add three or four hours of exercise..A DAY, EVERY DAY. Now that is 3 hours more than everyone else, of course. I know Sylvia said there was no rose garden, but this is outrageous!

Even when I was regarded as somewhat chubby, I was always the recipient of sad head shaking and those lugubrious comments about my pretty face. As one of my previous, thirty-five year old adorable doctors once explained to me while patting my hand in sincere sympathy, "Italian women are the most beautiful in the world until around thirty when all of that luscious abundance turns to fat and there is not much you can do." I howled with laughter and he was injured in his sensitivity gene. Those skinny tushes insist that fatties are just lazy and without will power. Well, OK, sometimes I can be classified as lazy. Actually a good bit of the time. But, Oh thou without the fat gene, you have done nada to achieve what you were given at birth. So do not gloat. There but for a gene, go I. That is my story and I am sticking to it!