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...Kelly Fitzgerald...
...good. 'Ciao,' I said. But it was like saying goodbye to a statue, or a preppie. After a while I left her standing in front of Le Juice Bar, and walked down to the 7-11 in the rain." Lynda says she really is a Fitzgerald...
...after dark in the County Kildare countryside 30 miles southwest of Dublin, and Jim Fitzgerald's family had just finished dinner when there was a knock at the door. In burst five or more men, all masked and waving guns. Fitzgerald's wife and five of his children were herded together and locked in a back room. Fitzgerald, 55, head groom at nearby Ballymany Thoroughbred stud farm, was ordered to lead the gunmen to the stable of a certain five-year-old bay stallion...
Scared and a bit dazed, the horseman looped a bridle over the docile animal, then led him into the gang's horse trailer. Fitzgerald was ordered to lie face down in another van, from which he was freed an hour and at least 40 miles later. But by then the most acclaimed and valuable Thoroughbred in Europe, Shergar, was gone, horsenaped. "It was very neat," said a policeman of the caper...
This said, one must still allow for that rarest kind of consistency that is neither funny, dull, hazardous nor stifling. Call this the sublime consistency, which, instead of delimiting the truth enhances it - the consistency of an Ella Fitzgerald, Fred Astaire, Alec Guinness or Isaac Stern. But then, life itself has been inconsistent in producing such consistent pleasures. And once in a while, a consistency comes forward that is both sublime and foolish, that of Don Quixote, for instance, who mounted his premise and stayed the course, eventually proving less mad than inspired...