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...I walked up to the tallest and the blondest girl I said, "You don't know me now but very soon you will..."   Someone sent me this article in August 2020 -- it was the first time I had seen it. Leonard never mentioned it to me. Maybe there are reasons for that. I know Leonard was scared of journalists and liked to have protection set up when they came around.  So I met Leonard in November 1977. Stephen Williams interviewed him that same week on November 11. (Remembrance Day was not yet a holiday in Quebec and it fell on a Friday of a week I was working in a bank downtown, which happened to be the week Leonard phoned me up and invited me over for tea). I was 26, temping for a living - as a temporary secretary I only ever worked in one bank and only for that one week. So yes that is me  - I was very tall and thin-- but if I was fasting it would probably have been near the weekend, a fleeting experiment not a habit -  I have no memory of Stephen Williams  whom ...