The
Story Behind
The
Karen Elaine Morton Tribute Page
IN THE SUMMER OF 1978...
...I was twenty-two years old.
I was a Computer Science major at Cal State, Fullerton. Something
was missing from my life.
I had been studying very hard for
a very long time. Burn-out was pounding loudly at my door.
I needed a miracle.
I picked up the July issue of Playboy at the university book store. I confess my motivation was to see actress Pamela Sue "Nancy Drew" Martin naked. I was disappointed in Pamela Sue; not her fault. The pictorial didn't work for me and twenty-odd years later I can't even remember why, because something else--SOMEONE else captured my attention.
I opened the magazine to the first page of the centerfold pictorial. There was a full page shot of this picture:
Karen Elaine Morton. She was the most beautiful woman I had ever seen in my life; not known, not met, but SEEN; including actresses in movies, models in magazines and the mysterious girl who pulled up next to me at the stoplight in the little red sports car. (You know the one. There's always one.) I just stared at this one photograph. I felt uncomfortable, even a little panicky, then I realized I'd stopped breathing. She was literally breath-takingly beautiful. I made it through the rest of the pictorial, but before I turned that first page I thought:
"If there is beauty like this in the world, how bad can things really be?"
That thought, in contemplation of music, nature, art, and after more than twenty years--Karen, has gotten me through some pretty tough times. She was my miracle. She was beauty incarnate when I desperately needed beauty reaffirmed in my life.
IN THE SUMMER OF 1997...
...I finally had the pleasure of meeting Karen Morton at Glamourcon in Los Angeles. I told her my story. It made her smile. She is a charming and gracious lady. She is still one of the most beautiful women I have ever seen.
I wait for the Official Karen Elaine
Morton Website. In the meantime this page is to say: "Thank
you, Karen!".
It's also for anyone out there
who needs beauty reaffirmed in their lives.
Click below to enter the Karen Elaine Morton Tribute Page: