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Nobody seemed to wonder why a man was sailing through the Sheraton Miramar Hotel earlier this month, carrying a duffel bag, a tiny hammock and a teeny rattan chair fit for a six-inch-tall human.

Or lizard, as the case may be.

The hammock bearer was Henry Lizardlover Schiff, whose mission in life is the care and feeding of a fleet of 30 lizards and the teaching of lizard-owning humans (“Leapin’ Lizards!” View, Aug. 3).

“I’m carrying the flag for the lizards,” he said.

At the moment, Lizardlover, 39, had several tree skinks and an iguana in tow, which he had smuggled into the sleek hotel for a typically Californian purpose--to take a meeting. A suite door opened.

“I feel like I know you,” said a woman with a brunette bouffant. “I’m Candy.”

Candy Fazakerley, to be precise, Washington, D.C., commercial real-estate developer and fellow lizard lover. She and her sister, Margaret Ann North, had flown to Los Angeles to meet Lizardlover after reading about him.

Since August, Lizardlover has become something of a celebrity in the reptilian world. He has appeared on NBC’s “Now” and on “The Chevy Chase Show.” And he still gets mail from lizard lovers around the country.

But these lizard lovers had actually crossed the country to meet Lizardlover in person. And as fate would have it, both Fazakerley and Lizardlover had iguanas named Elvis. Lizardlover placed the duffel bag on the sofa and unpacked the lizards. Hasbro, an iguana who sports a gold necklace, settled down with Fazakerley.

“My little Elvis is so tiny in comparison,” she said. “My friends think I’m crazy. I run a multimillion-dollar corporation, and they say, ‘You’re flying 3,000 miles to meet Henry Lizardlover?’ ”

In the end, a good time was had by all.

“I thought we’d only talk about lizards,” Fazakerley said. “We talked about life.”

As for Lizardlover, he gave credit where credit was due.

“They were beautiful-looking, elegant, high-class women who came out to meet a lizard lover like myself, and it was another great experience for me, thanks to my lizards.

“I’m all choked up. I think I’ll go kiss Hasbro.”