Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2006 11:58:59 -0400
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
From: Candy Madigan <candymadigan at mindspring.com>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Coincidence?
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

At 09:32 AM 10/27/2006, you wrote:
> > eva.whitley at gmail.com 10/25/2006 11:16:49 PM >>>
> >Ted White wrote:
> >> So tonight as the weekly meeting of my writers group, The Vicious
>Circle
> >> (so-named by Charles Sheffield decades ago), Richard Moore noticed
>the
> >> printed copy of Alexis's open letter sitting on my table, and we
>fell to
> >> discussing recent events.  By way of explaining them, I told him
>about
> >> Keith Googling Lee in 2002 and what he turned up.
> >>
> >> "Mighod," said Richard, who is both a SF and mystery fan, but more
>of a
> >> mystery fan, "I remember this woman who turned up *years* ago at a
> >> Bouchercon, claiming to be Fredric Brown's daughter!"  He began
> >> describing her to me.  It was Lee -- then Lee Uba.  "I don't think
> >> anybody believed her," he said.  "It was just a story."
> >>
> >> And maybe a story that embarrassed her by 2002, when Keith turned it
>up
> >> on Rich's on-line fanhistory Outline.
> >>
> >> --Ted White
> >>
> >
> >And if she was born in 1954, wouldn't she have been too young to have
>
> >served in the Army
>
>Air Force (& Air America) is the claim:
>
>     > Elizabeth Swanson (known in later years as Lee Uba)
>       -- granddaughter of SF author Fredric Brown
>       -- was in Air Force in early 1970s
>       -- since Air Force's covert operation known as "Air America" did
>*not*
>          officially exist
>          >> therefore, she was *not* involved in any U.S. military
>activities
>          >> she was *not* a radar operator
>          >> she was *not* stationed in Cambodia
>
>Rich Lynch removed the passage from his site, but there is copy of it
>here: http://www.smithway.org/history/chap1a.html , plus of course The
>Wayback Machine (http://www.archive.org/index.php)
>
> > during the Vietnam War era? The troops were out by
> >January 1973, and she would have been 18, unless she was born in
>January.
> >
> >I thought she was supposed to be Frederic Brown's granddaughter.
>
>As you'll see further downstream, as it were, Ted corrected himself.

When I was pregnant with Kindra, she told me she was 45.  Kindra is
16.  That would make her 61 now.  That would also make her born
approximately 1945.  It is common for women to lie about their ages.  For
instance, I like to claim to be pushing 50, since don't I look good for
50.  Hmm, I should make myself an algorithm and just permanently add 10% to
my age.  Anyway, in line with the David Dance, if she is only lying about
her age (and she certainly *looks* 60) then the other things that she
claims are possible.  Step, two, three, slide, two, three.

Candy
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