Tamara Dobson, a blaxpolitation superstar during the 70s, died Monday. If you're like me, you loved, "Cleopatra Jones."

I remember being a little boy sitting on the porch with my mom and seeing a falling star. My mom said, "Make a wish!"

So the first thing that popped in my head was the fantasy of Tamara Dobson pulling up in a Lincoln Continental while I'm walking to school and taking me on wild adventures.

This was before I even thought about sex or knew anything about it, so the wild adventures consisted of Cleopatra Jones buying me ice cream, pixie sticks and helping me glue model airplanes together.

I just knew she would be sweet and kind and protect me from bad people.

The instant those images popped in my head, my mother said, "Don't wish for something you shouldn't!"

For years after that moment I believed my mother could read my mind.