She wrote back that she didn't want any part of being made into a saint. (If you read her new book you will know why.)
For several years Our Lady of Fonda sat in the back yard, through summer, autumn, winter and spring. She was rained on, snowed on and trees grew around her. Every year when we came back she was there.
We invited Jane to come up and see for herself how many women were cured by her workout. She said she would like to, but she was too busy selling her aerobics courses.
Jane writes in her book about her husbands, her acting career and her antiwar protests. But she doesn't say a word about Our Lady.
Ann went to Heaven 12 years ago, but the statue is still there. It reminds us all of the exercise classes, when our bodies were in shape.
At night when no one is in the garden, you can hear a voice in the fog saying, "Left leg up! Right foot down! Go for the burn! Feel the burn!"
We're the only people on Martha's Vineyard who have a ghost that does aerobics.
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