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Tue Dec 1
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i wonder is she made him put her in his will in time??
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And in all of our opinions, we know shit about this lady or any of the rest of them on the show, not because of producers, but b/c we only get about a smidgen of what their actual lives are.
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What I wanted to see here about George is that it bugs the hell out of me that he made all of his millions as a developer...a destroyer of what's beautiful about southern CA and turning it into tract homes and strip malls. It bugs that private citizens can destroy nature environments for private gain while all of the rest of us lose the larger natural community.
And nobody really cares. Because most of the people on the city councils and HOA boards are developers themselves or are getting paid off by them.
Then, of course, he has the money to buy his private multi-acreage ranch so that he and his kids can live in McMansions away from the taka taka housing and strip malls he helped create.
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Honestly, in a guilty-pleasure way I love all of them, sans Vicki. And if he did pass away, that's a bummer. And I hope his kids and Gretchen's rapport with them wasn't as heinous as it looked a couple episodes ago.
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ugh.
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And I too took note how she seemed much more concerned with how things were effecting HER, not that her son was getting his ass rammed in a CA prison. She has the $$ now, there are programs, years long, out of the country that she could send him to if she really wanted to try and help him.
**Also, remember her reaction when he was taken in by George's ex-wife (gf of D.Rodman) , it was all about Lauri. Would she of prefered he sleep on the street?
She's a hag and I hope she's putting some of that cash away for when George get's tired of her.
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She's giving him tough love, which is what a lot of addicts need.
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Real, real hard.
And yes, he really should go into a treatment facility, but as of now he's been locked up basically since he was 16, so Lauri is probably hoping juvy turns him around and then as soon as he gets out he does something heinous enough to get thrown right back in.
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Okay but really, it's good that she's getting off the show if she's actually going to focus on Josh. It's a horrible situation and I really hope he gets all the help he needs. It's just hard for me to watch her cry about Josh like she did last night, but then see her planning her wonderful two week honeymoon with a stopover in Dubai ((for shopping, of course)) with Geeeeeeeorge.
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Oh Geeeeeeorge, I wish I'd have married you.
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If that was the case, she would have tried harder to help him when he was in juvie. I feel badly for her, but at the same time I don't. See how supportive and involved she is with her younger daughter? I'll bet she was never like that with Josh. You can see it in their interactions. Granted, this is reality TV and we will never see or know the whole story.
Also, when you say, "I'm devastated" but your face can't move an inch to show any kind of emotion, you know you've had too much Botox. You don't look devastated, you look plastic.
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"She would have tried harder to help him when he was in juvie."
But that's the problem -- addiction specialists often advise family members of a drug addict to "cut them off" so as to not enable them. She's in a damned-if-you-do, damned-if-you-don't position, because if she'd gone and held his hand or spared him juvie, this same board would be pissing all over her for "enabling" him.
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Now if only they can bring back that crazy Christian chick with the blond wig. She was awesome.
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I saw her face briefly at that "trunk show" that they had, where they all tried on thousand dollar animal print dresses and Vicki had a meltdown.
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She's particularly crazy.
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Anyways I feel like if family was really her priority why did she do like 4 seasons of the show when her son clearly needed help. She probably shouldn't have done the show at all to focus on helping him when he first got in trouble and his addiction was not as bad
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