their mother. could you have believed will be sitting here in this hotel room, talking about this subject in the year 2014? no. it is pretty crazy. i could never have seen this coming. perhaps it is pretty crazy, but there is apparently no stopping them. these tenacious sisters, time at the antipathy young. there s no halfway when it comes to a promise. it is either all or nothing. a bizarre story? yes, it is. at the center of it is a woman named shirlene van gundy. a beauty queen, once, back in colorado. our mother was a incredibly beautiful soul. she taught both my sister and i that there was nothing we could not do. hello! [laughs] i love you! my earliest memories of her