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CELEBRITY DRUNK-DIALING
Raquel Welch Used to Drunkenly Call Our Number
We were two degrees of separation from the iconic star
I was looking for something fun and mindless to watch and was searching all the streaming platforms I have. A movie, “A Swingin’ Summer” (1965) caught my eye. It was a beach movie but set at Lake Arrowhead.
The film quality was terrible, some parts so faded and glitchy that it was difficult to watch, and I was just about to switch to something else, when who should catch my eye but a very young and beautiful Raquel Welch.
She wasn’t only eye candy in the film, she had some funny bits and witty lines. She was a bright spot in a pretty dopey movie, but it would be a long time until she wasn’t only cast for her looks or treated with respect.
Once I asked my mother what sex was. She said a man was a man, a woman was a woman, and those words were sex. She wasn’t lying, but that wasn’t what I meant, and she knew it. I wanted the verb definition of the word sex, and she was giving me the nouns.
I managed to piece my own theory together from whatever sex acts I saw in rom-coms and what my neighbor told me.
The man took his Ya know and placed it gently in the woman’s down there. There he stayed…
