Such an amazing, life-affirming sense of relief she must be feeling....perhaps only the sort of feeling shared by prisoners of war....a very long war. I think that some Vietnam-era vets were held for around that length of time....wasn't John McCain held in a camp for seven years?
Even so, it would be far different for a little girl, being snatched away from her home and family like that. I hope that she can be protected from the inevitable media frenzy.....even without all of the other trauma, that alone would be enough to send me over the edge!
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You're quite welcome! Please feel free to add any updates or comments that you might care to....my hope is to make this a 'one-stop-update' location that people can go to if they want to learn about this story from the start and onward.
BTW, I love your tagline. We think along the same lines, LOL!
Thank you very much for your kind words :-)
Since it becomes more probable every day that the Left will try to run Hillary in 08, I think that Dr. Rice could not only beat her handily, but she would wipe the floor with Hillary. It would be a landslide. Having Miss Coulter riding shotgun would help to keep the press in a tizzy (always a fun thing) and she would be an insurance policy for Conservatives, in the event Condi ever got wobbly on any core principles or issues, Ann could have a nice sit-down with Dr. Rice and remind her of the important things, if they ever got murky.
I admit that it's a 'dream ticket', but we all have our dreams, don't we? :-)
Condi, being the Commish is nowhere near as interesting as being the Prez. :) LOL! We just gotta talk her into it. ;)
hehehe! I'm hoping that we can....I would be SO PROUD, having her as my President...I would feel ten feet tall.
Natasha has written her father a note asking to be left alone, and he is responding by complaining to the media about this personal decision of hers.
By the way, she will be nearly a millionaire now, at least before taxes:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,13509-2332062,00.html
At the risk of my seeming unintentionally insensitive, I cynically ask if it's surprising that her parents are suddenly taking more of an interest in her than she recalls that they did back in the days of constant domestic squabbling prior to their divorce? Natasha has said she wants to tour the United Kingdom with her step sister, but is nevertheless refusing to be reunited with her parents anytime soon. Hmmmm...
Notice how the father, a baker, wanted pictures with her "for the family's sake"? The police turned down his request, knowing about media sales rights and his possible thirst for the limelight at his daughter's expense. And the mother wants her to live with her, just as others in the world want wealthy tenants. Hopefully there's some genuine parental love involved on their part, but I have unfortunately seen examples not altogether unlike this one where love was the farthest from being the motivation for such sudden parental "interest".
I hope the parents stop pressuring her, unless they want to risk looking like relatives of Elian Gonzalez who didn't care about Elian until doing so could make them famous (especially among anti-Castro circles). Again, if I'm being overly insensitive then I scold myself but I cannot help but feel irritated at how insensitively the parents are behaving. Yes they need her but they also owe her...and at the very least should want what's best for her (and at 18.5 years old, she likely knows best what she wants). I doubt she wants someone like Shaquille ONeal's long lost father who suddenly showed up with avid interest after he had money. Shaq wanted no part of him but at least he knew better than to whine to the media. Yes the situations are distinguishable in that the parents reportedly didn't abandon their daughter but I have a difficult time believing that amidst their domestic squabbling they showed as much love for her that they would now claim to have showed. Who remembers best? Natasha. And she wrote at least one parent (who sought photographs) a nice note asking to be left ALONE.