A person whose name sounds nothing like mine emailed me today

with this question: "My mother, long gone, would sometimes call people,

including me, her son, ‘Peter Levine’ in what seemed to me whimsical fashion.

Now, decades later, and curious about what she meant by that, I typed

in the words at Google and found no reference to such a person in literature

or history that might fit. Since your name came up at the head of the

list, I thought I would write and ask if you could shed any light on who

she may have been referring to. My mother was born in 1901 in Arkansas,

had a seventh grade education, and was not well read. I suspect she picked

up the expression through conversation or story telling."

This just goes to show you—you never can tell why someone will visit

your website.