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“last minute’ choice to watch over the 10150 Cielo Drive estate because another friend had changed plans. The director told of his final conversation with his wife via telephone between Los Angeles and London—just a few hours before she met her death. “She asked me if I still want- ed a birthday party. I said yes, definitely. About the only other thing was that a little kitten had come down off the mountain and she was feeding it with an eyedropper,”’ Polanski recount- ed. He said there was nothing to, indicate the impending tragedy or that a party was going on that night. “There was no party that night,” he stated emphatically. Caustically, Polanski told the gathered reporters that they ,could now go visit the “orgy ‘place” where he had lived with Sharon. “You will see lots of blood. And there are books on natural childbirth. In fact, I was hurry- ‘ing back (from London) be- cause I was supposed to attend Spun, sari, of (childbirth) classes th her,” he said.