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To: Restorer; chimera; Cboldt
Well now we have the MSM weighting in....

A Family's Slow Descent Into Loathing

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Michael Schiavo and his in-laws stuck together, but then a settlement planted seeds of discord.

By Josh Getlin
Times Staff Writer

March 27, 2005

PINELLAS PARK, Fla. — Through good times and bad, the Schiavos and the Schindlers stood together.

When money got tight after Terri and Michael Schiavo were wed, her parents, Bob and Mary Schindler, made room in their home near Philadelphia for the young couple.

When the Schindlers moved to Florida two years later, the kids followed so they could all remain close. Michael called his in-laws "Mom and Dad." They treated him like a son and felt fortunate to have him in the family.

They stood together again in 1990, when Terri had a heart attack and permanent brain damage. The family gathered at her bedside, praying for a miracle.

"Without him there is no way I could have survived all this," Mary Schindler said in court testimony, recalling that her son-in-law was a source of strength in the days after her daughter's collapse. "We were in it together."

They still spend hours at Terri Schiavo's side, trying to comfort the 41-year-old woman who is near death at Woodside Hospice here. But Michael Schiavo and the Schindlers are never in the small room at the same time. They have not spoken in 12 years.

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Excerpted.....see link for the rest of the article.

140 posted on 03/27/2005 1:07:24 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach (This tagline no longer operative....floated away in the flood of 2005 ,)
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To: All

I don't know how close this article is to the actual facts........


141 posted on 03/27/2005 1:09:43 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach (This tagline no longer operative....floated away in the flood of 2005 ,)
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To: Dog Gone; SierraWasp
Take a look if you would at this LA Times article ( will need to register or use Bugmenot) and see what you think as to how much revisionism is being done.

Looks like good marks for Gov Jeb Bush in the article.

143 posted on 03/27/2005 1:24:54 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach (This tagline no longer operative....floated away in the flood of 2005 ,)
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