posted January 20, 2014 05:53 PM            

It was a chilly night. I was sitting on a block wall on the west side of the village (scraping my memory here...it's been a long time since I thought of this), hanging out with a couple street musicians (friends) who were performing for their supper.

Linda walked up to listen to the music and then engaged us in conversation. I cannot remember the particulars, what was said, etc. I remember that she and I connected at some level, even in an otherwise random social interaction. She had a man with her, but I never could tell if he was a date, a lover, a guard, a driver or a friend. He left and returned carrying four large documents (basically, a letter-sized paper bound in four volumes from 1.5" to 4" thickness) and presented me with a manuscript of Gooberz. She even signed it for me (though she miss-spelled my name, then got it right).

The title page is hand-lettered and has an actual photograph pasted in. The manuscript was done on a word processor, I believe.

I've carried that manuscript with me around the world. I just unpacked it again after another transoceanic move a few months ago.

I always wondered why Linda gave me the manuscript. I believe she saw a familiar soul, or I reminded her of someone else. But I know it had to do with "The Lion" (I am a Leo, too). I may have forgotten the words spoken, but not the feelings nor the energy of that evening so very long ago.

posted January 24, 2014 11:48 AM            

Here is the dedication page (page 2) from Book 1:

posted January 24, 2014 05:46 PM            

I can't find "Gooberz" .... it's oop

I feel so blessed.... One of the first astrology books I picked up was the one on Love Relationships. I could 'palpably' feel her soul.... I felt a kinship with her---- WAY BEFORE I ever knew about her website here.

I Knew and Felt her Space..... and resonated with the essence of her in the book. I 'felt' her sorrow-space.

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posted January 27, 2014 07:15 PM            

Remembering that this book was not published until 8-9 years after I received the manuscript, I have gotten curious about other changes. Specifically, did the book get rewritten by Linda even before it was edited by the Publisher? Had her vision of it evolved or matured or changed?

I do notice a marked difference in some of the graphics. I don't have much time these days, but I will start to scan some of the pictures in the manuscript and from the published book, if anyone here would like to see the earlier concepts?

As for how special I was to her, I would guess that I reminded her of someone very special!

posted January 27, 2014 07:22 PM            

Or even that we might know right now how the book was formed

Have you read this?
http://www.linda-goodman.com/ubb/Forum5/HTML/000464.html

It chronicles how the book came to be in the way she wanted it on the Star Notes.

posted January 27, 2014 08:46 PM            

I'm leaving on a Jet Plane, John Denver? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19ToC8pQrCY

posted January 27, 2014 08:53 PM            

My Great-Grandmother bought me "Back Home Again" Cool, or what?

posted February 10, 2014 08:33 PM            

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Originally posted by mirage29:
Oh!!! That's INCREDIBLE!!! Thankyou so much MilneCat! I'm soooo touched that you would share that with us! WOW~

I can't find "Gooberz" .... it's oop

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But I just ordered one today

posted February 11, 2014 03:54 AM            

It's been a few years since I tried last.... I'll have to call my B & N later to ask for the Book Gooberz, again.

Even my roommate had tried to get for me as a gift once.... He couldn't find it either.

posted February 11, 2014 02:13 PM            

Mine is not new. They did have one up that was, though.

posted February 25, 2014 04:54 AM            

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Originally posted by MilneCat:
I just found an original print of the hardcover book on Amazon (used, pretty good condition) for $12. The cover painting is from Charles Frizell and is a lot more fairy-tale-ish. But it still has the couple walking away down a path through the trees!

Remembering that this book was not published until 8-9 years after I received the manuscript, I have gotten curious about other changes. Specifically, did the book get rewritten by Linda even before it was edited by the Publisher? Had her vision of it evolved or matured or changed?

I do notice a marked difference in some of the graphics. I don't have much time these days, but I will start to scan some of the pictures in the manuscript and from the published book, if anyone here would like to see the earlier concepts?

As for how special I was to her, I would guess that I reminded her of someone very special!

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That would be Wonderful.

posted May 24, 2014 04:45 PM            

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Originally posted by juniperb:
"as telepathically channeled during the month of April, May and June in the year of our Lord"
1972

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That's what it says in a Poem somewhere too, doesn't it?

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Love,