Kitty Kelley, humanitarian:

In the middle of our first conversation, Nancy demonstrated her frugality when
the waiter approached our table. She asked to take home her bowl of tortilla
soup. The waiter returned with a six-ounce Styrofoam cup. "This will be
my dinner," she said, putting the container in her purse. Eyeing the breadbasket,
she delicately removed one small muffin. "My grandmother might like this
for breakfast," she added. Envisioning bare cupboards, I suggested she
take the whole thing. Nancy hesitated, but, when I assured her again that it
was OK, she dumped the breadbasket into her purse.

It's OK, go ahead and take the whole thing, I'm...

Kitty Kelley, humanitarian:

In the middle of our first conversation, Nancy demonstrated her frugality when
the waiter approached our table. She asked to take home her bowl of tortilla
soup. The waiter returned with a six-ounce Styrofoam cup. "This will be
my dinner," she said, putting the container in her purse. Eyeing the breadbasket,
she delicately removed one small muffin. "My grandmother might like this
for breakfast," she added. Envisioning bare cupboards, I suggested she
take the whole thing. Nancy hesitated, but, when I assured her again that it
was OK, she dumped the breadbasket into her purse.

It's OK, go ahead and take the whole thing, I'm only going to write it up in a national magazine so everyone can see how low you've sunk.

Ha! Yeah, that was a low point of the article. Still, don't you think, in her ongoing legal bid to reclaim some of the property the government seized from them, that she and her lawyer have an incentive to play up her pity factor? That was my thought.

Since the government raid on the Cunningham estate in Rancho Santa Fe, the forced sale of that property, and the public auction of most of her furnishings, Nancy has been living with her dog and her 87-year-old grandmother in a three-bedroom, one-bathroom bungalow in a downtrodden neighborhood. Her lawyer described the house as "a dump - a real dump."

After all, the lawyer sought the reporter out for the story, not vice-versa:[quot...

Ha! Yeah, that was a low point of the article. Still, don't you think, in her ongoing legal bid to reclaim some of the property the government seized from them, that she and her lawyer have an incentive to play up her pity factor? That was my thought.

Since the government raid on the Cunningham estate in Rancho Santa Fe, the forced sale of that property, and the public auction of most of her furnishings, Nancy has been living with her dog and her 87-year-old grandmother in a three-bedroom, one-bathroom bungalow in a downtrodden neighborhood. Her lawyer described the house as "a dump - a real dump."

After all, the lawyer sought the reporter out for the story, not vice-versa:

Consequently, I did not know what to expect when a friend of Nancy Cunningham's lawyer contacted me. He said she had not talked to anyone in the press, but she would talk to me for The New Republic because she wanted a national platform for her side of the story.