Posted on 11/06/2007 10:52:00 AM PST by Santa Fe_Conservative
Good evening and the very best to you and yours.
Semper Fi
Tommie
Congratulations!
Nothing unusual about your love story - in fact it was and is still cause to celebrate.
This Sgt. Drew Peterson liaison is quite different. Sex with minors by persons in a position of *authority* with an age difference of 30 years, is both unnatural and in all States, illegal (depending on the age of consent).
Congratulations. My wife and I have been married now for over 30 years. Working on the next 30. However, we’re a lot closer in age, one year apart. We had six children, lost one when she was only 6 days old.... long story there, bad surgery, bad doctors, bad MILITARY doctors then. Eleven grandkids (10 and one on the way).
This story is way different though, and the folks who instantly go off on young girls with older men stories are simply uninformed.
I’m sure there are a LOT of those kinds of marriages that do not end disaster or missing persons.
I am beginning to think, after this guy was married FOUR times, something wasn’t right at all at home. She’s missing. He’s a cop.
USUALLY that is a recipe for a bad story ending. Who better than a Cop to hide things?
Wonder if Oona O'Neill's father said something like that. (Of course, 99% of the time it's true...)
Update via wikipedia. "Eugene O'Neill was so incensed at the union (he had refused to give his consent so that Oona could marry Chaplin before her eighteenth birthday), that he cut her out of his life, refusing all attempts by her at a reconciliation." Chaplin was 54 and had been married 3x. The marriage to Oona lasted 35 years.
Yes, you could say he was a political idiot.
There are always some exceptions to the rule. I’m sure we could find a number of winter, spring romances that work out. But by and large I’ve got to question a 30 years age difference.
I thought if you added up her friends and relatives it would amount to two.
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