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Girl, 14, abandoned by mother who ran off with her lover
The Times (UK) ^
| 12/01/04
| Russell Jenkins
Posted on 11/30/2004 5:25:06 PM PST by saquin
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But when she returned home to find the locks changed, she had to accept that she had been abandoned.Yikes.
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posted on
11/30/2004 5:25:08 PM PST
by
saquin
To: saquin
What a terrible thing for a 14 year old to realize. Sheesh! What's into people?!
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posted on
11/30/2004 5:28:22 PM PST
by
hiredhand
( "Pudge the Indestructible Kitty" lives at - http://www.justonemorefarm.com)
Comment #3 Removed by Moderator
To: saquin
Man, what in the Unholy Hell
is it with some people?!? Is baseline morality endemic to just a select few of us?!?
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posted on
11/30/2004 5:29:19 PM PST
by
Viking2002
(Taglines? Vikings don't need no steenkin' taglines..............)
To: saquin
There must be a song in this some where.
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posted on
11/30/2004 5:29:40 PM PST
by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
To: saquin
See at first I thought "mum" had run off with the 14 year
olds lover, now THAT would have been a story!
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posted on
11/30/2004 5:30:41 PM PST
by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
To: F15Eagle
This poor young woman doesn't have a Mom. She has a woman who gave birth to her.
I hope this experience will make her stronger, and thank God she has a relative who cares enough to take her in.
As for the "mom", well, what goes around, comes around, eventually.
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posted on
11/30/2004 5:31:24 PM PST
by
LisaMalia
("In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends")
To: saquin
Well, who can blame the woman. Maybe she was in love. Maybe she needed to "find herself". Maybe she just needed some "me time". Why let a child stand in the way of you and self fulfillment?
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posted on
11/30/2004 5:31:40 PM PST
by
MisterRepublican
("I must go. I must be elusive.")
To: saquin
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posted on
11/30/2004 5:32:54 PM PST
by
HitmanLV
(HitmanNY has a brand new Blog!! Please Visit! - http://www.goldust.com/weblog -)
To: saquin
The hottest place in hell should be reserved for those who abuse or neglect a child.
To: MisterRepublican
could not agree more whiny kids hell shes 14 at 14 i had to walk to and from school uphill both ways
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posted on
11/30/2004 5:33:30 PM PST
by
al baby
(she stuned my little beeber)
To: MisterRepublican
True ---- the same reason many women pay to have their babies killed --- so they don't get in the way.
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posted on
11/30/2004 5:34:13 PM PST
by
FITZ
To: saquin
sounds like phil hendrie is writing the headlines again.
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posted on
11/30/2004 5:34:20 PM PST
by
the invisib1e hand
(if a man lives long enough, he gets to see the same thing over and over.)
To: saquin
Hmmm.
Is the mother's "lover" a woman? Just a wild guess.
Were this an American article, I would be sure of it. Nobody in the news media uses the word "lover" like this. Conceivably it's different in the UK however.
To: saquin
I've tears in my eyes thinking about this poor child.
God help her. She lost her dad, and was completely abandoned by her mother.
Dear Lord, please help her to stay sane, safe and strong.
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posted on
11/30/2004 5:35:24 PM PST
by
Happygal
(liberalism - a narrow tribal outlook largely founded on class prejudice)
To: familyop
To: saquin
Modern parental responsibility. I bet she votes leftist.
To: saquin
Animals treat their young better than this so-called mom.
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posted on
11/30/2004 5:38:40 PM PST
by
Ginifer
To: LisaMalia
I know a guy whose two daughters moved in with him after the ex-wife's lover made a pass at the older one --- when she informed her mother about what happened, the mother blamed her for trying to seduce her lover and told her to leave. Leave a house that her own father had bought but which now had another man living in it after the wife won the house in the divorce.
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posted on
11/30/2004 5:39:44 PM PST
by
FITZ
To: Dr. Frank fan; saquin
P.S. What I mean is this: If this were an American article, the word "boyfriend" would be used. Unless, of course, it
couldn't be, because the "friend" in question is not a "boy". In that case, I can imagine a newspaper editor, seeking to avoid writing "girlfriend" (for PC reasons - i.e. "it'd be homophobic to play up the lesbian angle"), casting about for a good substitute, and deciding on "lover". The result would look awkward (because "lover" is not often used), but it would be accurate, and conceal what the interests of PC require them to conceal.
As a result, I would conclude that the "lover" is a female.
I just don't know if "lover" is as uncommon in the UK press, so I can't draw that conclusion here.
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