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Kerry daughter wants to run (Says she will run Boston Marathon "just like her dad.")
Boston Globe ^ | February 16, 2005 | Carol Beggy & Mark Shanahan

Posted on 02/16/2005 10:34:08 AM PST by Land_of_Lincoln_John

GOING THE DISTANCE Following in her father's footsteps, Vanessa Kerry is training to run in the Boston Marathon. John Kerry's youngest daughter is studying in London on a Fulbright scholarship, but told friends in a recent e-mail that she's training for the April race. (Her father has said he competed in the late 1970s.) In the e-mail, Kerry said she's running as part of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute's marathon team and invited friends to visit the Dana-Farber website and make a donation supporting cancer research. (Among those who've responded are famous friends: singer Carole King and Al Gore's middle daughter, Kristin Gore.) Reached yesterday in Bozeman, Mont., where her mother, Julia Thorne, lives, Kerry declined to specify her reasons for running the marathon, but said that her parents, both of whom have been treated for cancer, are an inspiration. ''It's for everybody I've known who's had cancer," said the third-year Harvard Medical School student. ''It's a way for me to be involved in something positive and proactive after the election."

(Excerpt) Read more at boston.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Illinois; US: Massachusetts; US: Montana
KEYWORDS: bostonmarathon; caroleking; freeperrunners; fulbrightscholar; fulbrightscholarship; harvard; horseface; horserace; johnkerry; juliathorne; kerrydaughters; kerrylies; kristengore; kristingore; lurch; seabiscuit; spawnoflurch; vanessakerry
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To: Land_of_Lincoln_John
Is it okay to post this photo from PEOPLE magazine here?...Sorta related...

Barbara Bush resumes a normal life after the election....Maybe we will have a White House wedding?

Barbara Bush nestles close to her beau, fellow Yalie Jay Blount, during a shopping trip in NYC, near Little Italy (02/05/05.

21 posted on 02/16/2005 10:45:10 AM PST by daisyscarlett (`)
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To: Fudd Fan

Yeah, on plenty of GIN and RAISINS.


22 posted on 02/16/2005 10:45:49 AM PST by HMFIC (Fourth Generation American INFIDEL and PROUD OF IT!)
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To: Fudd Fan
But her mother is still loaded, isn't she?

Yes, Step-Mother.

23 posted on 02/16/2005 10:45:49 AM PST by Semper Paratus
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To: jslade

That was my first thoguht too!! So every time Kerry's do something it's going to make news?


24 posted on 02/16/2005 10:45:53 AM PST by LYSandra
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To: Semper Paratus

no, her MOTHER... Julia Thorne, the first meal ticket


25 posted on 02/16/2005 10:46:29 AM PST by Fudd Fan
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To: Land_of_Lincoln_John

>>>Kerry daughter wants to run (Says she will run Boston Marathon "just like her dad.")<<

Bwahahahahahahahaha kerry never ran!


26 posted on 02/16/2005 10:46:42 AM PST by rockabyebaby (What goes around, comes around!)
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To: Semper Paratus

Still, I bet Her Royal Heizeous gives him an allowance. He makes more than I do.


27 posted on 02/16/2005 10:46:47 AM PST by One Proud Dad
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To: Land_of_Lincoln_John

SWIFT-FOOT VETERANS FOR TRUTH.


28 posted on 02/16/2005 10:47:16 AM PST by Jhensy
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To: Land_of_Lincoln_John
I recommend a really good sports bra. The poor thing doesn't need any more sag.


29 posted on 02/16/2005 10:47:31 AM PST by EllaMinnow (Every time a leftist cries, an angel gets its wings.)
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To: Land_of_Lincoln_John

Hope she doesn't throw a shoe.


30 posted on 02/16/2005 10:47:46 AM PST by Lizavetta (Modern liberalism: Where everyone must look different but think the same.)
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To: Jhensy

Last time I checked, you had to qualify for the Boston Marathon by running another Marathon in a certain time.

I guess the usual rules don't apply to prviledged Democrats.


32 posted on 02/16/2005 10:50:01 AM PST by Peter Jennings
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To: Baynative
OK photoshop can be fun.

LOL you owe me a KEYBOARD.

33 posted on 02/16/2005 10:50:27 AM PST by Jersey Republican Biker Chick (Never play leapfrog with a unicorn!)
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To: Lizavetta

Yeah, she pulled up lame a couple of weeks ago, that healed, and now she had a few burrs under her saddle. The vet perscribed rest and lots of oats before the race. I think he wormed her too.


34 posted on 02/16/2005 10:51:09 AM PST by HMFIC (Fourth Generation American INFIDEL and PROUD OF IT!)
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To: Land_of_Lincoln_John

Do you think she will be running in a see through dress? That's what either her or her sister wore at the Fashion show before the election. Maybe it was her sister. And why is her sister on a scholarship? Can't she afford college? Isn't there someone less fortunate who could benefit from that scholarship she is using?


35 posted on 02/16/2005 10:51:22 AM PST by queenkathy
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To: Owl_Eagle

Check out the picture for post 31. I need a new keyboard.


36 posted on 02/16/2005 10:52:05 AM PST by Jersey Republican Biker Chick (Never play leapfrog with a unicorn!)
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To: queenkathy

No, no. That way, they'd have to SPEND some of THEIR money. Better to spend OURS!


37 posted on 02/16/2005 10:52:18 AM PST by HMFIC (Fourth Generation American INFIDEL and PROUD OF IT!)
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To: Land_of_Lincoln_John



Think I read that wrong. Maybe it's her that is doing the scholarship thins.


38 posted on 02/16/2005 10:52:42 AM PST by queenkathy
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To: Land_of_Lincoln_John
He claims, however, to have been an unofficial registrant, and ran it as "a bandit."

In the Rosie Ruiz division, no doubt.

39 posted on 02/16/2005 10:52:56 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Deadcheck the embeds first.)
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To: HMFIC

I would run for that family too.


40 posted on 02/16/2005 10:53:26 AM PST by TXBSAFH (Never underestimate the power of human stupidity--Robert Heinlein)
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