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	As always, her hair is neatly combed and there's only a hint of makeup-on her striking face She's barefooted and wearing a simple red T-shirt and a pair of blue jeans as she curls her leg,, beneath her while sitting in the tastefully decorated den of her hilltop Beverly Hills home.

	Lynda Carter is relaxed and obviously rested now that she doesn't have to report for work on Wonder Woman each day of the week. That's not to say she isn't busy, however.

	On the day of our visit she'd recently completed work on he CBS Television variety special, appropriately titled, Lynda Carter's Special. Resting on a table at her side was the script for a television movie she'll do before year's end entitled, The Last Song, and any day now she'll receive the final draft of the script for her first major motion picture, The Shroud.

	Meanwhile, along with her producer husband Ron Samuels, she's actively seeking the right material for her second record album, while at the same time writing her own original compositions which may or may not find their way onto the LP, Infinity.

In addition, Lynda is busy getting acquainted with her recently purchased horse, Jose who is boarded at the 18-acre Malibu Canyon ranch she and Ron live on. Their plans are to build a home on the acreage with a swimming pool and possibly even tennis courts without disturbing the existing riding rink where Lynda spend a big part of each week.

Quite obviously, it is a happy time for Lynda, and a time filled with expectations. The same, in part, as existed just a short three years ago when her career began to blossom. However, what the future hold,, is a bit more certain now that Lynda has established herself not only as an actress but as an all-around performer. There's truly more to her than her pretty face and head-turning figure.

"I really am enjoying having some time off," she admits honestly. "I mean, not having to get up at dawn every day and not getting home at dusk every night. Of course, there is a part of me that gets a little antsy, a little anxious to start on something new.

"But truly, it's nice to be home when my husband leaves for his office each morning and to be home when he comes home each evening. For the first two years of our marriage I was up before he was, and I was gone and I always arrived back home after he did. It's nice to know what marriage is about," she says with a giggle.

"Don't misunderstand, I enjoy working and I don't think I'll ever want to stop because it is stimulating for both of us, but right now it's really kind of nice to discover what marriage is really all about, to learn what a marriage is supposed to be as a housewife."

Naturally Ron is at his wife's side should she need him, and they do share their individual hopes and dreams, but they still manage to retain their own identity. "I have goals in my mind in terms of things I would like to do, and I always have," Lynda says matter of factly. "I have always wanted to sing because music is a real big part of my life, and I'm happy when I'm singing because it gives me something. It gives me something that I can't get anywhere else. There is excitement and there is a lot of pleasure.

"Likewise, I'm really looking forward to the TV movie because it is a mystery-drama in terms of content. Now I don't want to give away the whole plot, but suffice to say it deals with an ecological problem that actually does exist in this country now and one that is approaching a crisis stage. Let me just add that it makes nuclear waste look like child's play."

Lynda knows she's whetting an anxious appetite and apologizes for being unable to discuss the TV movie in greater detail. She next explains that her first motion picture deals with the mystery surrounding the shroud in which Christ was wrapped before His burial. "There is the image of Christ on a burial cloth, which people have been trying to disprove forever without success. The film has to do with a husband and wife who get involved in that mystery. We're going to be filming that in Spain, and I'm really looking forward to that. It's going to be a lot of fun.

"It's really so wonderful to be in a position where I have so many different kinds of things being offered me and different projects coming to me. However, as it is with my music, my acting is just one part of me, of my life. I no longer have timetable goals for myself as far as the career is concerned because the real priority in my life is my marriage and my husband."

Life has changed so much for Lynda in the past two years that she barely recognizes herself anymore. "I used to be anxious and not so much insecure as worried. Getting older and more mature brings changes into one's life of course, and also you get settled in when you're married."

Marriage brought Lynda a soulmate, someone to share both the good times and the bad ones with. It has also brought her a sense of security, which allowed her to concentrate on finding true inner peace. "It makes a big difference in your life when a person deals with that void of how they believe in their maker and their own immortality. What can we do to make what's happening now better? Being able to enjoy what you're doing in the sense of having inner peace.

Religion and a strong belief in God are what enabled Lynda to find that inner peace. "There's a knowledge and a peace when you take your thoughts and your prayers and worries or anything else to God. There's a place to go, someone to talk to, and an awareness that one's prayers are answered in many different ways. Not that it's any big revelation or that you hear a big voice speak, but there's a calmness, a certainty that is flowing, a comfortable kind of certainty. I know that no matter what happens, be it good or bad, nothing will happen that I won't be able to handle."

Even when good things happened, Lynda discovered they were hard to handle. That's when she decided to make the changes in her life. "I mean, everything was good, and it was very hard to cope with it," she says. "Here was all this good happening in my life and around me, and there I was thinking that something was going to happen to change that for the worst. I was forever looking over my shoulder and asking whether or not I deserved what was happening and was it going to go away. And thinking, what do I have to give up so it won't go away?

"That's not how one should live their life," she offers almost somberly, "but that's what I was doing. Like I said, I was always looking over my shoulder worrying that something or someone was going to catch up with me and take it all away. Boy I worried about that," she exclaims, "but not anymore. Today, it's straight ahead."

Certainly her career is part of that future, but it remains in second place behind her personal life. "I'm really excited about the ranch," she says with a beaming smile. "Basically, it's isolated and it's private and that's something I've always liked. I am not really a loner, but I have never really felt comfortable around a lot of people.

"The first year we were married Ron and I got zillions of invitations to go to parties and, well, honestly, -we don't get any invitations anymore because we seldom went to the parties in the beginning.

"Besides my horse, what I want to do is have some chickens, a pig, a cow, and I want to raise some of our own food in our own garden so we can supplement the food we buy with fresh food we've grown. Now I don't know what's going to happen when it comes time to butcher that baby cow I've raised. I'll probably have an 800-pound cow that's 80 years old!" she says with a laugh. "Seriously, if it's a choice between that cow and my, family's health, the cow will probably go."

Lynda used the word family unhaltingly, and I asked her if indeed she was planning on having children in the very near future. While she couldn't say when, she did offer: "I'm really looking forward to that some day. I would like to say well have our first child in a year or so, but I don't know.

"I do think that perhaps my career should be a little more established before I take a year off to have a baby but, again, Ron and I talk about it and... I don't know. I know that day will come, though.

"Really, I feel so blessed to have so much right now. I am very thankful. Yet I'm not much for material things. I never have been. I give everything away. I enjoy things we have, but I'm not really involved with them, and I don't put a lot of importance or security into them. There may have been a time when I did, but my life has changed and with it my values, ideas, and my ideals have changed. I'm a much happier person-and I hope a better person for it.

"I do know that I don't worry about things as I used to do. I know things are going to be OK, and that whatever problems surface will be resolved easily."

Again, there is that certainty that is now a major part of Lynda's life, and it's easy to see that come what may, Lynda's life will never be limited again.