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By the last week of December, 1937, even Hollywood caught wind of the Hapeville Worry Rock, with a little help from Courtland Gilbert, of course. He wrote a letter to one of the biggest movie stars of the day, Joan Blondell, inviting her to visit Hapeville and be the first famous butt to sit upon the rock.

Not surprisingly, Joan couldn’t make it. She did, however, send a letter in response, in which she wrote:

 

“To me, a rock seems to be ideal. It is so hard that there is no danger that the worrier will fall asleep and leave the worrying undone. It is solid enough to give one a sense of underlying security.” She revealed that while growing up in San Diego there was a large rock in her family’s back yard. “The Blondells…had plenty to worry about,” she said. “It was so successful that now I can’t remember a single thing I worried about in those days. That’s the way with a worrying rock. Hard to take, but good for you.”

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