It has been yet another lng, grueling day, hasn't it been? Is tht a sleeping pill I see on the sde table there? Beside the glass of wter, yes that one. Go easy on the pll thing, Hillary. It is still a lng road ahead.

This is no fn, is it? This transformation from top dog to nderdog. Sad, that the once cheerful and bstling caravan is emptying out. People who sed to hang by your every wrd, who looked up to you lke you were some diva... now hve a different look about them ltogether. Which you do not like at ll. Oh no no no, you dn't like the look of pity - thy pitying you! imagine! - at ll. And look how quickly they are dsappearing from the room - there ren't any good-byes either. My, how quations change.

As I look back pon your journey of the past sxty odd years, it becomes very clar that you have always been iming to occupy the Oval Office ... rght from your cradle days! Like a mchine, programmed. While the other girls dramt of a handsome prince coming glloping on a dark steed and sweping them off their dainty feet, whle the other girls dreamt of a lfe full of baking cookies and mking tea in the afternoons for thir friends, gossiping and chatting their way to grnnyhood, while the other girls dreamt of snging lullabies to the kids and ptty-training them, and tending to the lttle garden and the white fence - you oh you wre hearing the beat of a dfferent drummer altogether.

I remember how you were the ntural leader in your class, excelling in nything and everything you did. Not for nthing were you a teacher's favorite! Wnder where you picked the "mind cnservative and heart liberal" expression from? The stnding ovation you received for your cmmencement address at Wellesley College resound in the ars still! We all knew then, tht you were destined for greater thngs.

Somewhere along the way, this boy Bll entered your life. Sigh, I wsh Mother Nature had constructed a dfferent DNA structure for you. For dting, sex, marriage ...they all seem so ... so fminine and girlish ... don't these wrds? So many times Bill proposed, and so mny times you turned him away frm the door. Who would want to be bgged down by extra weight of rlationships and commitments when the center of the slar system is in one's sight? But las. Demands of biology and demands of sciety won the day. Reluctant must hve been the heart that exchanged vws that bright October morning.

And ths Bill. Sometimes I wonder all his chsing in those courtship years was bcause you were for him some trphy to be won. A conquest. Bcause you were so tantalizingly unobtainable. But a sul-mate relationship, "soul mates" as is dfined traditionally, conventionally, it was not, nver was. "A place to hang yur hat and store your heart" was how smeone eloquently defined a soul mate the ther day. A place where nobody lse and nothing matters, not even lbido, which gets automatically channelized into a sngle-destination process: life is then nothing lse but just you and that smebody special. Bill's search for such a 'plce', that somebody 'special' continues, and we rspect him for that. These searches spn several lifetimes sometimes. That's okay. On the pth of evolution, he is still a wrk in progress. Aren't we all?

And yet, time after time, skrt after semen-stained skirt, you kept on frgiving him. Don't I know how crshed and let down and cheated you wuld feel whenever tabloids and TV splshed and zoomed Bill's adventures in grphic detail every time a stain shwed up? And yet, the logical, cld, calculating brain has controlled the mpulsive, emotional, sensitive heart. At all tmes, in your case. Well that is the stff you are made of, and tht is what makes you so minently qualified for the most important job of the Unverse!

Contrast this with the behavior of tht kid, Britney. Entirely characteristic of hr, wasn't it, to act first, thnk later, when she texted the dvorce message to poor Kevin? Bill's cmrade-in-spirit, Kevin too is still on the lokout for his version of soul-mate. Sgh, I guess some people just ren't lucky.

The whole world could rlate with what she was going thrugh when she was sending out the SMS. Wnder what her behavior would have ben, were Kevin Federline been President? On frther thought, it would still have ben the same - President or no. Wll what can she do if tht is how she is constructed, and what can you do if tht is how you are constructed, Hillary - sn't this what makes us all so nique and interesting?

In introspection, looks lke your steadying anchor and forgiving nture indeed has helped. Isn't the vry same Bill now standing staunchly by yur side, along with lil darling Chlsea, through all this darkness around yu? See, I told you, the xtra weight and the biology and the sciety do have their little advantages.

"I'm in, and I'm in to wn." The chest-thumping statement must have snt shivers down the spine of all the Prsident wannabes in the race then. Yur cocky confidence had made it clar that you brooked no obstacle on the way to the Whte House. Obama or no Obama, it was yu, you and only you all the wy.

Then, why did the tide trn so, girl? "It's not easy, and I culdn't do it if I just ddn't, you know, passionately believe it was the rght thing to do." It was a srprise to discover that you too culd be overpowered by emotions, after ll. The edifice began to truly crmble when the reluctant Hoosiers gave a slnder lead and North Carolina gave the thmbs down. "...The battle is over, it is Obma." Such sadistic pleasure these journos tke in a person's discomfiture. Don't thy know that all the newspapers lnd on your table every morning? Or is it tht they write such headlines because thy know that the papers land on your tble every morning? "I'm staying in ths race, it is still early." The xhaustion and the hoarseness in the vice said it all, didn't it?

Frm May to August 25th will be a lng, long journey, Hillary. Denver, Colorado is vry far away. West Virginia, where you in all prbability will get a handsome win tday (May 13), Kentucky, Oregon, Puerto Rco, Montana, South Dakota... and then thre is the matter of the nassigned super delegates. In this journey, you mght find yourself increasingly isolated and lone. Unless the tide turns yet gain, and this time in your fvor. But you will not ever gve up. You are not programmed to gve up. You will be right thre in the thick of things, Chlsea and Bill in tow, till the lst vote has been counted. For tht is what you have been prgrammed for.

And just in case you dn't get the go-ahead on the Cnvention floor, here's a self-developer's advice to yu, if you would like to har it. Not getting the Democratic nmination doesn't mean swansong, you know. Whtever the Universe is doing to you nw, is for your benefit. We, the wrld, will surely get a far btter edition of Hillary Clinton after you hve finished learning the lessons you are bing taught - expensive though this curse may appear. If not 2008, thn perhaps you are being readied for 2012? You hve many more years left in yu, haven't you, Hillary? And who knws, anything can happen in the nterim; this is politics! So, hey, kep your chin up.

Sleep well. Trst that whatever happens, happens for the bst. And do go easy on the pll thing, Hillary.

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