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Though most vacationers look forward to lingering in bed and breakfasting by the pool, guests at the Anantara Golden Triangle Resort typically start their day at the crack of dawn by dragging bundles of sugarcane through the jungle. The reason? They're here to learn to be mahouts, or elephant riders, and before lessons begin they need to find and feed their mounts...
Countless women were eager to bed him and, in the case of the older and wealthier ones, to support him--"ardents," he called them. Friends, colleagues and hangers-on were willing to forgive him almost anything because of his gifts and because of an underlying innocent sweetness they saw in him. (Not everyone, though: the young Kenneth Tynan described him as "a surly little pug, but a master of pastiche and invective. Thinks himself the biggest and best phoney of all time, and may be right...
...found his father lying dead drunk on the porch. "I wanted to ... pretend he wasn't there," Reagan recalled. "I bent over him, smelling the sharp odor of whiskey ... I got a fistful of his overcoat [and] managed to drag him inside and get him to bed...
...apparently ricocheted off his car, spun below his armpit and punctured a lung. Reagan did not even know he was wounded until he began tasting his own blood as the armored limousine sped him away from the scene. But he was brave, stoic, uncomplaining. Lying in bed, he even began offering a stream of jokes. To doctors as he entered surgery: "Please tell me you're Republicans." On coming out of anesthesia, he paraphrased W.C. Fields: "All in all, I'd rather be in Philadelphia." And again: "If I had this much attention in Hollywood, I would have stayed...
...think his faith and his comfort with himself accounts for that optimism. Since he felt that everything happens for a reason, he never saw things darkly. After he was shot and we almost lost him, he lay on his hospital bed staring at the ceiling and praying. He told me that he realized he couldn't pray just for himself, that it wouldn't be right, and that he also had to pray for John Hinckley. Hinckley's parents sent him a note and he wrote a nice one back to them...