Originally Posted by
TheMotownManiac
Mary knew that she mishandled the situation and wished that she had done it differently. It turned into a pissing contest, she underestimated her old pal diana, not only did they both lose out but so did the fans. She knew all of that. Eventually Mary understood that the $20 million what is total BS, but she clung to it because it worked so well and it covered up The big issue for her really: that the promotion company didn’t even think of coming to her or including her in anything, making Diana the important one again and Mary was so so so sensitive to that. Diana made it worse of course by not including her in anything, and I completely understand why and I don’t blame her necessarily, but I think she felt that Mary would be grateful to be doing the tour, making the money and that would be good enough. So the money was a big deal to mary but she never ever thought that she wouldn’t be on the tour until it went on without her. So she had a lot of regrets, that she had a hell of a good time around those regrets.
it’s very true that the measure of success and happiness has nothing to do with having bundles of money, but Mary was a little bitter about money. She knew that she had earned a lot more than she was given, and she was genuinely concerned for her finances After she was unable to work anymore.
COVID made that worse. Mary had a taste for finer things, not extravagant, but definitely finer things and when she thought about that and measured what she could afford versus what she wanted occasionally it made her unhappy.
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