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A letter to Anna Nicole Smith

Contributed by: Bryce Perica on 2/21/2007

Dear Anna,

You died on a Thursday afternoon in your hotel room in Hollywood, Florida. The news of your death smothered the media. Until that Thursday I never knew that you meant so much to Americans. People paid tribute to you with emails to news networks, blogs, stories, photos, and videos on YouTube. I watched the news for a little bit from my couch that Thursday. No news in the rest of the world was more important to the media than your death that day.

It has almost been two weeks since your death and I still read headlines about it in the papers and see the talking heads gaggle on about you for hours like you were an ex-president or the UN Secretary General. To my knowledge you really didn't do much in your life that warrants all the press.

You were a high school dropout and married a cook at Jim's Krispy Fried Chicken when you were a teenager. You worked at Wal-Mart. You showed yourself to the world through the pages of Playboy. The world liked you for that. You met and married an oil baron 60 years your senior. He died. You went to court for some of the inheritance and won some money. Along the way you had a couple of kids and participated in a false advertisement campaign for TrimSpa.

What did you do with all the time in between? Why does America care so much? I liked the way The Daily Show covered your death. They called their segment on you Death of a Person.That is what your death was to many of us.

There were certainly people who died on February 8, 2007, that did much more worth celebrating and paying tribute to, than you did. I suppose this isn't your fault at all. You knew where the gaze of American media was and you threw yourself into it. Perhaps you knew exactly what America is about, more than any of us because we gobbled you up and fell in love with the show without asking ourselves what you had done to deserve all the attention. I can't blame you for wanting to be famous; it is what you did, to become that way,which disgusts me.

Sincerely,

Bryce


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Submitted By: Bryce Perica
posted on 2/28/2007 @ 2:50:36 PM
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I don't know if your last comments warrant a response, but I have none because I don't know what you are talking about anymore.
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Submitted By: nicole debeauville
posted on 2/27/2007 @ 11:59:58 PM
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oops.... i mean convex...my bad
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Submitted By: nicole debeauville
posted on 2/27/2007 @ 7:37:20 PM
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Mr.Bryce, may I please recommend that you use concave, as opposed to covex. I bow out.
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Submitted By: Bryce Perica
posted on 2/27/2007 @ 2:48:44 PM
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I understand that what we see through the lens is not necessarily what God sees. However, I must disagree with your opinion that the end is "always God's ending." This is to say that the Holocaust was God's ending, or that Hiroshima, 9/11, the bombings in London in '05, and the Iraq War were God's endings as well. I don't feel I am belittling God's will or master plan by believing those were not the endings God wanted.
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Submitted By: nicole debeauville
posted on 2/26/2007 @ 11:57:54 PM
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Exactly!!...wanted, needed, planned it to be,destined it to be. Whatever you want to call it. Things unfold the way that they're supposed to unfold. He allows things to happen.His Picture has already been drawn. And I emphasize, 'HIS PICTURE'.
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Submitted By: Bryce Perica
posted on 2/26/2007 @ 2:29:58 PM
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"...it's always God's ending." Do you mean that this is the ending God wanted?
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Submitted By: nicole debeauville
posted on 2/25/2007 @ 5:31:52 PM
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It may not always be the best ending, but it's always God's ending. And by the bigger picture, I mean God's picture, not ours.
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Submitted By: Bryce Perica
posted on 2/24/2007 @ 1:09:54 AM
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The answer to your questions of me follow in the order you asked them. Yes, yes, yes (and no), and yes. I am glad you have faith that might let you see the bigger picture and the inherent value in it. However, the picture is not always the prettiest and clearest because God so lovingly granted us free will. Because God may bring good out of a situation doesn't mean it was the best ending that we could of had.
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Submitted By: nicole debeauville
posted on 2/23/2007 @ 8:26:11 PM
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'Judge not, lest ye be judged. Let him who is without sin, cast the first stone.' I'm sure Anna has already made her peace with the Lord. Did you ever think for a second Mr.Bryce, that God Almighty might have already known the kind of life Anna would lead, even before she was ever conceived? Don't you think for a second that the Lord might have already known the date and time her life would end, and how it would end? The people whose lives you claim she left in pieces, don't you think that God had planned it to be that way? Don't you think for a second, that there might just be a bigger picture to all of this than meets the eye? We all have different journeys. We all take different paths. Nonetheless, we are all unique and special in His eyes. Let's find ourselves and not be afraid to be ourselves.
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Submitted By: Bryce Perica
posted on 2/23/2007 @ 2:21:07 PM
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Nicole: Is it because I judge Anna's life that you think I am not being myself? Possibly. Either way Ms. Nicole, if you take a closer look at the situation, you might see how Anna's life has left the lives of many others in pieces not because she died, but by the way she lived. You say Anna was herself and real. In this case, that meant a life full of greed, self-worship and feeling good, no matter who or what was going to be affected. By your definition, I'll gladly pass.
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Bryce Perica

Longmont , CO

Bryce Perica has posted 29 stories and 13 comments since joining on 10/18/2006. Bryce Perica 's average story rating is 4.81.
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