The quiet history of Amelia Earhart's disappearance, and her odd connection to Irene Craigmile Bolam

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Below: Wikipedia's "Irene Craigmile Bolam" article fails to address the reality of more than one person having employed the same 'Irene Craigmile Bolam' identity, among several other inaccuracies.

The original Irene Craigmile (Bolam) 1930.
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Amelia's friend with her husband and father, seen no more after the 1930s, ignored by Wikipedia.

NOTE: Wikipedia is an on-line public information supplied encyclopedia. The below color photo of Irene shown directly under Wikipedia's heading "Irene Craigmile Bolam" is the one Wikipedia published. Wikipedia did not furnish it, rather, it was supplied to Wikipedia by Ukranian Physicist, Alex Mandel. The photo reads 'circa 1980' yet it was actually taken in Detroit, Michigan in 1976. Since it is now 'known information' that more than one Irene Craigmile Bolam existed, is it a photo of the Gervais-Irene or a photo of the Non Gervais-Irene? (It certainly isn't the original Irene.) If one has looked closely at all of the various Irene Craigmile photos displayed throughout Irene-Amelia.com, it is easy to tell how the color photo identifies the 1945-1982 Gervais-Irene only. Amazingly, anyone can print out the color Wikipedia 'Irene' photo at home, conduct a transparent photo overlay comparison test to a same sized, same lighting, and same angle posed photo of Amelia Earhart from the 1930s, and he or she will reveal the same person shown in younger and older versions.

Below find the Irene Craigmile Bolam biographical account reprinted from the on-line public encyclopedia, Wikipedia. It is misleading, and Beyond 37's (Irene-Amelia.com's) comments are inserted in response to the Wikipedia article primarily supplied by Alex Mandel of the Ukraine.
 
FROM WIKIPEDIA:
 
"Irene Craigmile Bolam"

"Irene Craigmile Bolam c.1980"
 
Mandel/Wikipedia:
 
"Born October 1, 1904 Newark, NJ"
    
"Died July 7, 1982, Bedford, New Jersey"
   
"Occupation Banker, Homemaker"
   
"Spouse(s) Guy Bolam, Charles Craigmile, Alvin Heller"

"Parents Richard J. O'Crowley and Bridget Doyle O'Crowley"
   
Mandel/Wikipedia: "Irene Craigmile Bolam (1 October 1904 – 7 July 1982) was a New York banker and resident of Monroe Township, Middlesex County, New Jersey.[1][2] In 1970, a book which was soon widely discredited set forth an allegation she was Amelia Earhart. Bolam denied the claim, took legal action against the publisher and the book was withdrawn."

[BEYOND 37': The above is not accurate. No birth certificate for Irene was ever found and the true year of her birth has always been disputed. For example, the 1920 census listed her as "age 14." As well, the Gervais-Irene never denied herself to have formerly been known as Amelia Earhart, and there is no mention in the article of there having been three different human beings who were identified as one in the same 'Irene Craigmile Bolam.' The one who appears in the photo above was the 1945-1982 publicly identified Irene Craigmile (Bolam), AKA the Gervais-Irene who Joe Gervais asserted his four decade long claim (1965 until his death in 2005) identifying her as the former Amelia Earhart. She became 'Irene Craigmile Bolam' after she married Englishman Guy Bolam in 1958, who was described by his brother to have been 'MI6.' The book, Amelia Earhart Lives referred to Guy Bolam as "her alleged husband" thus damaging Irene's reputation, and it was among the two main reasons cited by her attorney to have it withdrawn. (The other was her home ownership in New Jersey, where the book conveyed it to have belonged to Floyd Odlum, the husband of famous pilot Jackie Cochran.) The 'Irene' shown above in the color photo appears nowhere in photographs identified as 'Irene' prior to the 1940s. Two other women interchangeably do though; the 'original' Irene Craigmile, and the '1940s family identified' Irene Craigmile, AKA the Non Gervais-Irene. Note: The lawsuit between the Gervais-Irene and Gervais & Klaas was settled with a ten-dollar consideration paid by both sides after the Gervais-Irene refused to submit her fingerprints as proof-positive of her identity.]
 
 
Mandel/Wikipedia:

CONTENTS:

*Amelia Earhart Lives

*References

*Notes

*Bibliography

*External links
"Amelia Earhart Lives"

Mandel/Wikipedia: "In 1965, Major Joseph Gervais had a chance encounter with Bolam, believing she was Earhart. Using Gervais' research, author Joe Klaas documented this assertion in his book Amelia Earhart Lives (1970). Bolam denied being Earhart, filed a $1.5 million lawsuit and submitted a lengthy affidavit refuting the claim. The book's publisher McGraw-Hill pulled Klaas' book from the market shortly after it was released and court records indicate they made an out of court settlement with her."

[BEYOND 37': It was not a "chance encounter." In 1965 Amelia Earhart's long time close friend, famous pilot Viola Gentry invited Major Gervais and paid for his entire family to fly across the country to New York so he could discuss his investigation results concerning Amelia's 1937 disappearance with a club of famous retired pilots known as "The Early Birds of Aviation." There, Viola introduced Major Gervais to Irene Craigmile Bolam and her husband, Guy. He noticed Mrs. Bolam was wearing a Distinguished Flying Cross pin and an Oak Leaf Cluster signifying Air Force Major status, both of which were decorations awarded in the past to Amelia Earhart. Again, there is also no mention of how the 'lawsuit' (actually a summary judgment hearing that reached the New York State Supreme Court) dragged on for five years, and it was finally settled with a ten dollar consideration paid by Gervais and Klaas to Irene, and by Irene to Gervais and Klaas after she refused Joe Gervais' request to submit her fingerprints. By turning down his request for her fingerprints, she forfeited her right to what 'potentially' could have been a final settlement awarded her to be paid by Gervais and Klaas over time in excess of $1,000,000. And nowhere in the 'affidavit' does Irene actually deny herself to have been the former Amelia Earhart. It is true however, for publishing the book without enlisting her cooperation and for the few libelous remarks that were damaging to her reputation, McGraw-Hill was ordered to pay her a $60,000 settlement.]

Mandel/Wikipedia: "Bolam's personal life history has since been thoroughly documented, eliminating any possibility she was Earhart."

[BEYOND 37': This is not true. To the extent Irene's life could be documented, no less than three different human beings appeared as one in the same 'Irene' in the photographic history of her life from the early 1900s to 1982. So much is clearly ascertainable, especially in the 1982 New Jersey News Tribune series. Not to mention, in no way has anyone ever "eliminated the possibility" of the woman in the color photograph shown above to have been the former Amelia Earhart.]

Mandel/Wikipedia: "Evidence presented in the affidavit included her 1937 private pilot's licence [sic] and marriage certificate. Her personal life was also a matter of public record. Born Irene Madalaine O'Crowley, she married Charles Craigmile and on his death, married Alvin Heller but was subsequently divorced from Heller c. 1939. She remarried to Guy Bolam in 1959. Although Irene Craigmile Bolam was a pilot, her main career revolved around banking and finance in New York. Brother-in-law John Bolam said, ""She was influential, knew many well-placed people and was well-traveled."" Many mutual friends such as racer Elinor Smith also knew both Earhart and Bolam."

[BEYOND 37's NOTES:

1.) The Gervais-Irene (Gervais' former AE) maintained some of her old friendships. Note: The public had never heard the name 'Irene Bolam' before she was implicated as the former Amelia Earhart in 1970. As Monsignor Kelley avowed, it was not her wish to be a public person anymore. So much is the reason she took a new identity after she went missing. She never volunteered or expected herself to be recognized for who she used to be, except she eventually was recognized by retired Air Force Major Joe Gervais in 1965. And "many mutual friends" indeed. Famous pilots Viola Gentry and Fay Gillis Wells knew both Amelia and her later-life Gervais-Irene self, as did Amelia's sister, Muriel always know her as both Amelia and Irene, and so did Attorney Irene Rutherford O'Crowley, the original Irene Craigmile's aunt. These individuals and select others were no doubt in league with maintaining the non-public quota of such a non-realized truth.

2.) The 'original' Irene's 1937 pilot's license was dated May 31, 1937 (the day before Amelia left from Miami on her epic world flight.) Beyond 37' previously obtained a copy of it from Joe Gervais. It was never signed by anyone, let alone the original Irene Craigmile, as she had only flown as a licensed pilot for a very brief time in mid-1933. (The original Irene had a child in early 1934 and never flew again. According to Rollin Reineck who researched the flying history of the original Irene Craigmile, as a licensed pilot she had a total of only 'twenty-six' solo flight hours documented in mid-1933. 1937's was the last pilot's license issued to her, and the only renwal of it since it was first awarded to the original Irene in 1933.)

3.) Aspects of everyone's personal life end up as "a matter of public record." Since the original Irene was a 'real' person, of course there is exists proof of it, to most specifically include her 1934 born son, Larry Heller, who in 2006 identified an entirely different person than the Gervais-Irene as his early childhood mother.

4.) The 'original' Irene's middle name of "Madaline" was found on record in three different ways; as Madeline, Madalaine, and Madaline. Yet "Madaline" is the O'Crowley family history spelling. (Note 'Edna Madaline O'Crowley,' the original Irene's Aunt.) Notice the above clumsy language as well: "she married Charles Craigmile and on his death, married Alvin Heller but was subsequently divorced from Heller c. 1939." Here's what actually happened: Charles Craigmile, the 'original' Irene's first husband since 1927 who was fifteen years her senior, died suddenly of an appendicitis attack in 1931. A year later in 1932, the 'original' Irene's friends, famous pilots Viola Gentry and Amelia Earhart introduced her to flying airplanes by arranging lessons for her on Long Island, NY. In mid-1933, just after she received her pilot's license the 'original' Irene became pregnant out of wedlock via her flight instructor Al Heller, and the two eloped and were married in August of 1933. In early March of 1934 their son, Clarence 'Larry' Heller was born in Newark, NJ. The trail of the 'original' Irene grows cold after that. Note: In 1994 a 1970s and 1980s friend of the Gervais-Irene, Diana Dawes mentioned in a taped statement how she "understood someone had died and that's how she (the former Amelia) was able to get her new name." In 1940 a legal 'annulment' (as opposed to a divorce) was filed to declare the original Irene's marriage to Al Heller 'null and void,' citing Mr. Heller had already been married before and had never obtained a legal divorce from his previous wife, thus returning the name of "Irene Craigmile" to be legally available for the former Amelia Earhart's use. Amelia, of course, was described to have "disappeared without a trace" three years earlier in 1937. After her return to the U. S. in the mid-1940s the new Irene Craigmile (the Gervais-Irene) trained to become a Bank Vice President in Great Neck on Long Island, NY beginning in the mid-1940s. As Amelia she had loved Great Neck, having lived there with her friend Marion Stabler in late 1924 to early 1925. Amelia and her sister Muriel called it 'their favorite Long Island beach haunt.' The Great Neck National Bank 'provisioned the Gervais-Irene her new career.' She left the banking trade after she married Englishman Guy Bolam on July 25, 1958 (as opposed to "in 1959.") She had again become an active and recognized Zonta member, hob-nobbed with her sister Muriel and other past flying friends at Zonta and Wings Club Functions, and in the 1960s and 1970s she became a strong corporate influence for Radio Luxembourg, even serving as its President after Guy died in 1970. In the 1960s she and Guy often traveled internationally together, and they owned a cabin cruiser boat called 'The Harpoon III' she used to race up and down the Long Island Sound, herself most always at the helm. When she married Guy on July 25, 1958 (some referred to it as a marriage of convenience for both, although they did appear as endeared to each other) the date marked one day after what would have been her 61st birthday as AE.

5.) The Gervais-Irene's survived brother-in-law, John Bolam's 2002 Associated Press quote is completely transcibed this way: "We were inclined to think Irene probably was not Amelia. However, the forensic studies are very convincing. She was not an ordinary housewife as she claimed. She was influential, knew many well placed people, and was well traveled."

Mandel/Wikipedia: "In 2006, Criminal forensic expert Kevin Richlin was hired by National Geographic to study photographs of Earhart and Bolam and cited many measurable facial differences between them, concluding that the two people were not the same."

[Beyond 37': This is not true. Forensic detective Kevin Richlin never forensically "concluded" the two were not one in the same and admits that. Richlin did mention the producers of the show did not supply him with enough adequate photo data and/or other forensic data to conduct a thorough analysis, and therefore he could not conclude that they either were or were not one in the same individual human being. 
 
Note: Thus marks the end of the brief and misleading Wikipedia biography page of Irene Craigmile Bolam.)]

Some notes and a Bibliography appear on the page. Although articles and books are cited, they were shaped to favor Alex Mandel's anti 'Earhart survived and became Irene' campaign.
External links

*Earhart comparison to Bolam (TIGHAR's 2004 unsuccessful debunk attempt)

*Bolam as Earhart theory (Mandel rejection essay no longer linked)

*Bolam Theory with Lawsuit Details (Associated Press, 2002)

*Where is Amelia Earhart? Three Theories (National Geographic, 2003)

 
     personal data
     NAME     Bolam, Irene Craigmile
     ALTERNATIVE NAMES      
     SHORT DESCRIPTION     Banker, homemaker
     DATE OF BIRTH     October 1 1904
     PLACE OF BIRTH     Newark, New Jersey
     DATE OF DEATH     7 July 1982
     PLACE OF DEATH     Bedford, New Jersey
 
End Wikipedia Page
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Beyond 37' Note: The "external link" listed above labeled "Earhart Comparison to Bolam" is that of TIGHAR, (Richard Gillespie) whose theory offered Earhart and Noonan to have perished on the desert Island of Nikumororo hundreds of miles south of their destination of Howland Island. TIGHAR sports a flashy website and has received well over a million dollars of private contributions since the 1980s, based on Ric Gillespie's assurance that he expected to find Amelia Earhart's plane there. He's continued to try and draw public interest and to raise more money, though by now the most ardent researchers have chalked his ideas up to little more than a 'Gilligans Island' type of castaways story. (Mr. Gillespie never found anything on the island described as 'credible' by anybody but himself and some of his devoted TIGHAR members.) Soon after the Associated Press began to re-examine the new credibility added to the long held Joe Gervais claim about Irene-Amelia in 2002, to be followed by Colonel Rollin Reineck's Amelia Earhart Survived book publication in 2003, Mr. Gillespie built the page shown on the above link to also campaign against the newly resurfaced Gervais-Earhart paradigm. It is one sided, of course. Any favoritism shown by the public to any other theory than TIGHAR's has always been met by Mr. Gillespie head on. See further down, how after Dr. Walter Birkby's 2003 comments expressed favoritism towards the work of Beyond 37', Mr. Gillespie flew himself to Dallas, Texas to confront Dr. Birkby one on one, putting him on the spot before he had a chance to conduct his promised analysis. Dr. Birkby initially stated how based on his preliminary review of Beyond 37's information, he found it "hard to disagree" with the claim of there having been more than one Irene Craigmile Bolam who shared the same identity, and in the possibility of one of them having been the 'former' Amelia Earhart. Ric Gillespie noticed this of course, confronted Dr. Birkby, and twisted the good Dr.'s words to serve his own platitudes.     
 
Notice too, how Dr. Alex Mandel of the Ukraine, among the most ardent of the anti Irene-Amelia campaigners, dominates the contributor notes pages for Wikipedia. Across the top of the Wikipedia page one will notice the tabs "Article," "Discussion," "Edit This Page," and "History." Especially in the "Discussion" and "History" links, both Mandel and Gwen Gale obsessively dominate the input, with Mandel going to extreme measures to try and plead his case of there having been nothing controversial about the past lives of Irene Craigmile Bolam and/or Amelia Earhart. Take a look at his following misinformation comments regarding Beyond 37's research contributions to the Irene-Amelia topic:
 
Posted by Dr. Alex Mandel of the Ukraine:
"After reading the AP article (from "Atchison Globe online"), I found that it includes some factually incorrect statements, that provides potential misinforming effects - "crediting" the fantastic anti-factual theory with undue weight. The statement about the photographic overlays with "pilot’s face and hands, matching perfectly with those of Bolam" is of unclear origin."
 
[BEYOND 37'S NOTE: This is untrue. Both portions 'hands & face,' plus full heights, arm lengths, foot size, etc. all appeared in the book and video that were premiered and placed on display at the 2002 Oakland Aerospace Amelia Earhart Research Symposium attended by three hundred people (see journalist Rosalea Barker's article about it) and in Rollin Reineck's 2003 published book, Amelia Earhart Survived.]
 
Mandel continues: "In a very best case it quotes and represents the personal opinions of a few overenthusiastic believers in his theory."
 
[Beyond 37': Notice the words "few" and "overenthusiastic" as opposed to "numerous" and "serious." As well, it was never anyone else's "theory" beyond the claim originated by Major Joe Gervais. What Major Gervais asserted was later decribed as "his theory" after he met and photographed Irene Craigmile Bolam (Irene-Amelia) in 1965 at a gathering of famous retired pilots. Joe Gervais stated with 'certainty' he recognized her for who she used to be, and after diligently researching her background for five years, he determined the Irene Craigmile Bolam he met in 1965 had to have been no other person than the living former Amelia Earhart. Nobody was ever able to prove him incorrect, and he died in 2005 still believing and asserting it... after forty years of steadfastly doing so. As it turned out, he was correct.]
 
Mandel: "The differences between Earhart and Bolam - both in bodial and facial aspects - are numerous and quite obvious, some of them striking; and it was always noted by numerous observers and researchers, both during the presentations of the theory and in all other cases when and where some discussion about this topic ever happened."
 
[Beyond 37': This is plain and simple BS, profligately issued by a person wielding a false-truth campaign. (Is 'bodial' a word?)]
 
Mandel: "The important and principal fact is that there was no [sic] any positive forensic confirmation for the theory ever provided to the public and scientific community for any professional check and proper verification."
 
[Beyond 37': Forensic Anthropologists Dr. Birkby and Dr. Fenton initially agreed to separate the two different Irenes and to throughly conduct a full body analysis of Irene-Amelia as compared to Amelia, but after Dr. Birkby was confronted by Rich Gillespie of the Tighar organization and phoned by Bill Prymak of the AES, he became discouraged commenting "I don't go for this kind of thing," causing both he and his partner to do a limited null hypothesis of the post war augmented 'Irene-Amelia's' face (similar to Richlins) as compared to Amelia's from the 1930s.]
 
Mandel: "Moreover, two 'forensic pathologists' mentioned in the article - Dr. Walter Birkby (Arizona) and Dr. Todd Fenton (Michigan) - actually issued a negative verdict about the credibility of the theory, refusing to support it;"
 
[Beyond 37': This is not true. And again they were 'Anthropologists' as opposed to "Pathologists," two very different fields. Any so called 'negation' of theirs was based on the lack of Irene's past medical records being made available to research investigators, that would account for the deviated septum rhinoplasty the survived AE clearly endured. Not to mention the cosmetic dentistry that reduced the gap between the former Amelia's two front teeth.]
 
Mandel: "...and in May 2005 Colonel Rollin Reineck - the author of the book supporting this theory published in 2002..."
 
[Beyond 37': Reineck's book Amelia Earhart Survived was published in December 2003 and was not in stores until 2004.]
 
Mandel: "...informed about this the "community" of Earhart researchers (although not without understandable regrets)."
 
[Beyond 37': Again, this is plain and simple BS. Solid proof exists where Rollin Reineck can be seen in National Geographic's 2006 filmed 'Unsolved History' Amelia Earhart TV special, where Reineck states "Earhart survived, there's no doubt about it." Colonel Reineck continued to support and share his knowledge of the forensic truth about the Irene-Amelia conveyance and the accuracy of the forensic study until he passed away in September of 2007.]
 
Mandel: "Then, as the article mentions, in 2006 Criminal forensic expert Kevin Richland was hired by National Geographic to study photographs of Earhart and Bolam and cited many measurable facial differences between them."
 
[Beyond 37': It's spelled "Richlin." And there weren't "many" differences he pointed out, there were only a few, and they were the same 'medically explainable' ones Dr.'s Birkby and Fenton alluded to upon observation. (Not to leave out how the effects of aging itself vary in all individuals; noses and ears will continue to grow, noses sag, facial fat from the upper nose bridge will move southward, as generally does all facial fat causing facial 'sagging.' Mr. Richlin, not a medical expert, never touched on these things, nor on dental work or rhinoplasty possibilities.) No doubt National Geographic engaged Kevin Richlin, (surely with encouragement from the Amelia Earhart Society's long time founding President, Bill Prymak who worked with National Geographic on the special Mr. Richlin appeared in) to serve as a back pocket, non-historically informed 'ringer.'  Dr. Birkby on the other hand, cited what he called 'a possible non-accounted for past trauma' that could have occurred at some point to cause the nose difference he observed, to include the probability of a past deviated septum rhinoplasty procedure having been performed to account for it.]
 
Mandel: "It seems for me that all the above mentioned leaves the referred article without the degree of seriousness, factual accuracy and credibility required for the "source" referred in encyclopedic article. Not intended to insist on anything.. but, because of presented reasons, for me it would seem more reasonable to remove this link... Kind Regards - Alex Mandel 13:48, 2 July 2007."
 
[Beyond 37': Dr. Alex Mandel of the Ukraine feverishly trying to control a situation through his own distribution of misinformation. This is an above sample among many of Alex Mandel's overt campaign to not only influence Wikipedia controllers, but the entire internet viewers perception as well.]

Below: Take a look at the two photos below. Realize they were forensically identified as 1940s photos of two different people history described to have been one in the same person, whose full name had been; "Irene Madaline O'Crowley Craigmile Heller Bolam."  (More simply; Irene Craigmile Bolam.) One photo bears the image of the Gervais-Irene (who Joe Gervais later met and photographed in 1965) and the other bears the 1947 image of the woman identified by the original Irene's son, Larry Heller as the 'mother' he recalled from his early childhood, (AKA The 'Non Gervais-Irene.') Note as well, the 'Gervais-Irene' appears nowhere in photos identified as 'Irene' prior to the mid-1940s.

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Above: "Gervais-Irene" - 1945

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"Non Gervais-Irene" - 1947

Below: Of the three different women historically identified as 'one in the same' Irene Craigmile Bolam, only the Gervais-Irene bore a head to toe congruence to Amelia Earhart. ('Irene-Amelia' refers to equal overlay belnds of the Gervais-Irene and Amelia Earhart.) Alex Mandel and Bill Prymak knew, but intentionally left it out of the information they furnished for Wikipedia. 

The Gervais-Irene & Amelia
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Two photos in an equal blend.
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Irene-1963 / Amelia-1928, age thirty-one.
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Irene-1965 / Amelia-1933
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Irene-1976 / Amelia-1932
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Irene-1978 / Amelia-1929

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NOTE: To contact Beyond 37' e-mail EarhartTruth@Irene-Amelia.com. The Beyond 37' film, book, and website projects are dedicated to the late USAF Major Joseph A. Gervais (1924-2005) and the late USAF Col. Rollin C. Reineck (1920-2007). Both were World War Two heroes who learned the basic Irene-Amelia truth decades ago. Major Gervais, who was considered by many to have been the most knowledgeable Amelia Earhart researcher to ever pursue the mystery since he first began in the late 1950s, discovered the Irene-Amelia reality in 1965. The controversial 1970 McGraw-Hill book by Joe Klaas, Amelia Earhart Lives expounded on the enormous amount of Joe Gervais' investigative research, and displayed the first nationally published photo of Irene Bolam, AKA the Gervais-Irene. Notwithstanding the fallout the Amelia Earhart Lives book caused, Colonel Reineck spent the last decades of his life trying to advance the Gervais claim of Earhart's name-changed survival to authenticity after his own thorough analysis of the evidence that supported it. Colonel Reineck's book Amelia Earhart Survived was published in late 2003, and was greatly inspired by the Irene-Amelia forensic studies of Beyond 37'. Several portions of the analysis appeared in the Reineck book, although more samples are better displayed in this website. Beyond 37' and Irene-Amelia.com are both owned and managed by Tod Swindell and Aether Pictures based in Pasadena, California.

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