Fascinating or Fraud? – Part I

~ MaryG

We met a woman on the porch of The Red Lion Inn.

“How’s the chicken pot pie?”

“It’s good!” she said.

I detected a British accent, but she said she was from Miami. Polite smiles. Back to our menus.

Later, while we were discussing the meaning of “agender” vs “non-binary” with some delightfully open GenZs, she jumped back in.

Here’s what we learned:

She’s building a solar farm business in western Massachusetts for which she had to undertake complex government permitting and state house lobbying.

She owns a home in Miami, but had been raised in the UK where she went to “college.” (Oxford was mentioned.)

She lived in western Massachusetts for many years, had two daughters, but then moved to Belgium with her German engineer husband (no longer in the picture) who was a high-level executive with General Electric.

She had a home in Newport, Rhode Island for many years.

She was a realtor and avid home renovator.

She just returned from a trip to Northern Italy where she met George Clooney’s driver.

One of the daughters left marketing and opened a successful antique store in northeastern Massachusetts. The other daughter lives in Austin, Texas, where she’s considering moving to from Miami.

She is a fan/follower of a certain self-help guru which led her to her passion for neuroencoding.

She is a grandmother.

She is a professional life coach.

At this point, I needed to vape a little weed…I mean, it was a lot.

Now, slightly high, I listened to more things being relayed.

She’s a BIG sports fan, especially basketball and football, and her Miami condo overlooks the Miami Heat home arena.

At one point, she purchased and successfully overhauled some sort of professional American football club.

In the past, she worked at the Miami port herding passengers onto various cruise ships, including swinger cruises for which “codes of conduct” contracts were required from passengers.

And this is the one that finally put me over the edge into doubting everything:

She founded and runs of charity dedicated to improving the lives of pediatric cancer patients.

I mean, very admirable, but how on earth does she find time! Does this woman ever just watch TV?

I made a joke about her having a multiple personality disorder. She did not seem offended. We said goodnight, after getting her name so we could connect online.

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18 thoughts on “Fascinating or Fraud? – Part I”

  3. I would highly doubt everything she said. Why on earth would you tell people you just met all these questionable life stories? Entertaining for sure, but where’s the truth?

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  4. What an encounter! Being so well traveled and having tentacles in so many pots, what did she think of the gender conversation?

    There are lots of nice condos overlooking the arena, biggest boom area of Miami so that tracks.

    I really want to hear more.

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  6. Whoa… that sounded like she threw up her entire life there! I was wondering how the conversation transitioned from one topic from the next. I’m guessing a nice little (or shall I say big) ramble. I am a lover of chicken pot pie. Simply the best meal ever.

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    1. My friend and I were asking her a lot of questions, so it didn’t really seem like bragging, but it all just started to feel implausible. Her chicken pot pie looked fantastic…we ended up splitting a Thanksgiving-type sandwich (turkey, cranberry, stuffing), which was also really good!

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