Posted on 04/30/2005 12:05:31 AM PDT by kcvl
Edited on 04/30/2005 12:28:18 AM PDT by Sidebar Moderator. [history]
ATLANTA (CNN) -- Jennifer Wilbanks, a Georgia woman missing since Tuesday night, has been found alive and well in New Mexico, a friend of the family told CNN.
Wilbanks was located in Albuquerque, New Mexico and told her family she had been abducted and taken there, according to John Kim, a friend of Wilbank's family.
Excerpt - story follows:CNN
Have you read "The Grits Guide to Life"? GRITS = Girls Raised In The South.
The Wilbanks' Sunday school class at Lakewood Baptist Church on Thompson Bridge Road (Ga. 60) in Gainesville organized a drop-in prayer service Thursday night for their classmates' missing daughter. From 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m., dozens of concerned church members stopped by to comfort each other and sign the guest book, letting the Wilbanks family know they are in many prayers.
"They're just great folks," said Jerry Gill, the church's minister of pastoral care.
nose---->beer----->keyboard!
My grandmother always said a lady's name should only appear in print three times, when she's born, weds and dies. My mother used to tease her by calling it "hatched, matched and dispatched". My grandmother never even appeared in print for the charity work she did and was upset because my mother appeared in the paper for hers all the time.
I alweays think of my grandmother when my name is in the paper for Women's Club, UDC or DAR events.
600 people, 300 invitations. Say each family has 150 invitations. The grooms father has been a judge and mayor of Duluth. The grandfather was a prominent doctor and the local school is named after him. They have roots in Duluth for generations so they have a large extended family.
The bride's family is also prominent in their small town. They, too, have a large extended family. They owned a large Garden store and knew everyone.
I think they probably had to cut out a lot of people that were originally on the list.
Having moved south from NJ I can tell you that some Southerners may put on large beautiful weddings, but, in general, they don't spend the money as lavishly as they do up East.
Of course, what was I thinking. She's baking!
That movie was filmed in the town where my Mother went to college and lived after married for a whle. A lovely town. And that wedding was dead on for a Louisiana wedding.
I think it is very telling that the fiance DIDN'T go to New Mexico to go pick her up---
BTW, change of subject, but have ya'll noticed how much coverage that Fox has given the Minutemen Project? They have had live shots from there all day today---
I don't watch the other "news" channels so I don't know if they have covered the MM at all.....
Sorry for the interruption, now back to the second half of "Gone in the Greyhound".......
OK, even if we give her that...the minute she saw anything in the media about this...and you can't tell me when she was in Vegas she didn't see or hear anything, she should have called them and told them she need some time alone. Sorry. She will have to live with this the rest of her life.
Walker Percy could write a novella on this.
I do miss Carol Burnett's show.
With mimosas, iced tea and some nice chicken salad sandwiches, precisly cut, crustless, on Sunbeam Old fashioned bread.
You left out her 28 attendants.
There is so much in this story, especially the so far unknown shadows, to remind me why the south has produced some of the greatest literature in our country.
"The fiancee needs to get away from her at any cost. This is just the start of the theatrics that he will endure if married to her."
If he doesn't by all means keep those TV cameras rolling. We ain't seen nothing yet.
Stop it. She's a working nurse. People who look normal can be totally nuts too. But to simply put her in a weird category like that defeats any lesson one might learn.
My mother has a "Seasoned Grits" shirt. Grandmothers raised in the South.
Thanks for that post, God I loved that skit!
I'm thinking this was a case of two mothers going crazy about them getting engaged. Woo-hoo, a wedding to plan! I'm also thinking that maybe she fell in love with his family more than she did with him? He reeeeally appeared odd to me on Greta that first interview. I am still going back to his weird answer about why he didn't go running with her that night. I just think it was odd that his answer wasn't that he had just gotten in from running. Instead, he said that he liked to talk when they ran, and she didn't. Very passive-aggressive answer, imo.
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