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    Image of cand86 cand86
    12/09/09

    In reply to Teachers Caught In Intimate Moment • Texting Is "The New Lipstick On The Collar"
    Quite honestly, hearing the words "teacher" and "caught", and "sex", in the same sentence, I can only feel relief on realizing that it's between adults.

    Also, I laughed really hard when I read the first sentence of the steak-throwing. And then I just got sad reading the rest of it.
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    12/09/09

    In reply to Teachers Caught In Intimate Moment • Texting Is "The New Lipstick On The Collar"
    I went to that high school, and one of those women was my teacher for two years. This really does not surprise me at all. Nor do I feel that bad for her. She always had some major boundary issues. I'm kind of surprised she didn't get in trouble for something before this
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    12/09/09

    @colormeroutine: I grew up by that school! (but didn't end up going there). Sort of odd to say Brooklyn Pride for a post about a sex-escandalo but there we have it. Brooklyn pride indeed. It's just rare to read about that part of Brooklyn other than when cricket players get hit by lightning in Marine Park. True story.
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    12/09/09

    @Serathen: Nothing that happens in Marine Park could surprise me. Including someone being smote.
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    Image of m.e. stijl m.e. stijl
    12/09/09

    In reply to Teachers Caught In Intimate Moment • Texting Is "The New Lipstick On The Collar"
    Okay, sensationalist news editors, I know you want to get your senssses on, but this headline is severely misleading:

    "Woman Sues Over Drunken Leg Amputations"

    Were the doctors drunk while amputating her legs? Did she amputate her own legs while drunk? What the phalanges is going on here?

    Oh, right, drunk dumb bitch shoulda known.
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    12/09/09

    @emistijl: As a journalist, I believe I can translate: The legs were drunken and they amputated themselves, and the woman is suing them.
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    12/09/09

    In reply to Teachers Caught In Intimate Moment • Texting Is "The New Lipstick On The Collar"
    Am I the only one who noticed the lede:

    "A western Pennsylvania woman who drank herself unconscious celebrating her 20th birthday says a hospital didn't properly treat her, resulting in partial amputations of both of her legs."

    It seems to frame the issue as "another one of 'dem womenz folk couldn't take her alchie and now is suing a good America small town hospital."

    A quick scan of the first few comments how conveniently everyone fell into the AP's trap without knowing any substantial facts.

    Another example of why that wire service is heading to the dumpster.
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    12/10/09

    @d000505: I thought that too.

    If you have drunk too much surely the most responsible place to go/be taken too is the emergency room? You'd hope to be taken care of there and not left slumped over/passed out in a dangerous position!?
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    12/09/09

    In reply to Teachers Caught In Intimate Moment • Texting Is "The New Lipstick On The Collar"
    And Ms. Brito and Ms. Mauro thus fulfilled around 75% of their male students' teenage fantasies.
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    12/09/09

    @Lady Saira, Vere de Vere: Heh.
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    12/09/09

    In reply to Teachers Caught In Intimate Moment • Texting Is "The New Lipstick On The Collar"
    Okay. Wow. This is a lot of messed up shit.

    First, I think that drunk, passed out woman at the hospital should sue the pants off that hospital. Her freaking legs had to be amputated because she was left passed out in an odd position for 12 hours? That's clear neglect. Not saying she should have been drunk, but... the hospital definitely should have been more on top of their shit. That amputation could have easily been prevented.

    Also, two incidences of female on male violence... interesting. I felt especially bad for the disabled guy getting smacked around with a steak. I do find it interesting that this kind of thing would make the news, since most domestic violence cases (with female victims) rarely get any publicity. I guess the steak part made it really weird?
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    12/10/09

    @thelaurenator:
    I'm disturbed by how many people I have seen say it was the drunk girl's fault. If you have drunk too much surely the most responsible place to go is the er.
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    12/09/09

    In reply to Teachers Caught In Intimate Moment • Texting Is "The New Lipstick On The Collar"
    I read the actual article about the teachers, and am I missing something? What was the proof that they were "getting busy"? It doesn't even say to what degree they were unclothed. Granted, they shouldn't have been unclothed at all, but my school had no locker room so girls often got changed in an empty classroom. I've gotten changed at work plenty of times (in a private bathroom stall, of course). Still, this seems like a desperate grab for a salacious headline and yet another railroad job.
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    12/09/09

    In reply to Teachers Caught In Intimate Moment • Texting Is "The New Lipstick On The Collar"
    They didn't notice someone sitting in the exact same position--on the floor in their emergency room--for 12 hours? I'm sure hospitals get crazy and busy, but sheesh.

    Sidenote: Is it normal to pass out for 12 straight hours without moving?'

    Edit: Nevermind! TrudysHats knows all (see below), and also has an awesome name.
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    Image of Bitingpika Bitingpika
    12/09/09

    In reply to Teachers Caught In Intimate Moment • Texting Is "The New Lipstick On The Collar"
    The teacher story blows my mind. Last spring, I walked down the hall of the middle school where I teach with my skirt tucked into my underwear. I no longer feel so bad about that.
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    NellMood promoted this comment Bitingpika was starred Bitingpika was unstarred
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    12/09/09

    @Bitingpika: One of my favorite teachers tucked a shirt into her hose once when I was in high school. It was a special moment. She owned it.
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    12/09/09

    In reply to Teachers Caught In Intimate Moment • Texting Is "The New Lipstick On The Collar"
    The girl with the amputated legs was not sitting on them for 12 hours in the emergency room. She was sitting on them at home for 12 hours, then was found and taken to the emergency room. After she was there, she claims the hospital failed to diagnose the problem with her legs caused by sitting in that position, and instead eventually transferred her to another hospital where her legs were amputated.

    Here's an article with more detail.

    [www.pittsburghlive.com]
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    Image of sassyredhead sassyredhead
    12/09/09

    @TrudysHats: Wow. I had compartment syndrome in both my legs about 10 years ago. It was a quick surgery with only an epidural and two small scars. I never knew it could lead to amputation. Probably best I didn't know it. I was a huge baby about it all anyway.
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    12/09/09

    @TrudysHats: Thank you for having more info about this. I was so disturbed when I thought they'd left her passed out in the ER for 12 hours!
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    12/09/09

    @wealhtheow: Well, she did have to wait at the hospital for 6 hours.
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    12/09/09

    @CherriSpryte: Ugh, that'll teach me to actually read the linked article. That sucks. But at least she wasn't collapsed, unregarded, in the ER for 6 hours.
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    12/09/09

    @wealhtheow: true. Though I don't want to insult the fine people who work in ERs, based on my own experiences, I wouldn't've been surprised if that was the case.
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    12/09/09

    @TrudysHats: Comments from that article:
    "She was stupid and paid the price with her legs. I doubt that she'll learn from that. I'll bet she'll get drunk again the first excuse she can think about for doing it."

    " this is the kind of lawsuit that makes it tougher on people with genuine claims to be fairly heard."

    I wonder if these two idiots ever got drunk to the point of passing out in their lives. No one deserves to be treated the way she was.
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    12/09/09

    @TrudysHats: What I'm having trouble understanding is this - she drank so much that she passed out for 12 hours, but the doctors didn't take her complaints seriously because she was intoxicated. 12 hours later, she was still drunk? Or am I missing something? Do doctors use that word to describe something other than just drunk, or are they trying to cover their asses in hindsight?
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    Image of m.e. stijl m.e. stijl
    12/09/09

    @rixatrix: You can still be drunk the next day. It could mean because she was intoxicated the previous night and they thought she didn't know what she was talking about.

    Either way, it looks like malpractice to me. People get passed-out drunk all the time. Sometimes they die. People get into fights. They crack their heads open. They get hit by cars. They choke on their own vomit. And sure, they pass out in weird positions. But if you're taken to the hospital, they should know what they're doing and how to treat you, not dismiss you for being drunk (sound familiar, rape/dv investigations?)
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    12/10/09

    @dirtybee: I know! Christ! As if they never touched a drop in their lives. People make mistakes, sheesh.
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    Image of TrudysHats TrudysHats
    12/14/09

    @dirtybee: Yeah, some people have no compassion. Did she make a mistake getting so drunk she passed out. Yes. Have I made that same mistake in my life? Yes, one time when I was in college. It was a stupid mistake that many young adults make. Does that excuse the hospital for misdiagnosing her symptoms or waiting too long to transfer her to another hospital that could help her? No.
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    12/09/09

    In reply to Teachers Caught In Intimate Moment • Texting Is "The New Lipstick On The Collar"
    Would the story about the teachers have been written if it were a heterosexual couple? I doubt it would have been written in the style it was - talking about their tattoos, interviewing 16-year-olds to find out if their teachers were "sexy."

    I guess the bigger question is if the teachers would have been dismissed if they were a hetero couple.
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    12/09/09

    @LoSpaz: I think they probably would have. I mean, I can't have sex at my job and I DON'T work around children.
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    12/09/09

    @LoSpaz: Its the Daily News so, well, it would still be tabloidish even if they were hetero. But probably not as much as it is with two "good-looking" young women.

    And I agree with Ms. Skittles. They were undressing in a classroom and that is all it should take.
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    12/09/09

    @LoSpaz: I think they would have been dismissed if they were heterosexual. Undressing and/or engaging in sexual activity on school grounds is a no-no, and doing it while there are students in the building adds another degree of inappropriateness to the mix.
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    12/09/09

    @LoSpaz: Edna Krabappel & Principal Skinner faced the very same thing.
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    12/09/09

    @LoSpaz: Oh, it definitely wouldn't have. That would be a 'they're damaging our youth' kind of story, not 'lolz lesbians.'

    Though I initially misread it as "getting ready during a talent show" and was very confused. Wouldn't it make sense for them to be changing for a show or whatever? But the "international language of love" line set me straight.
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    Image of lizyfizy lizyfizy
    12/09/09

    @LoSpaz: The story would probably have been written differently, but I'm pretty sure that hetero teachers would have been dismissed. Kids were in the building and if a janitor found them, kids could have as well.
    Also-I think a teacher would have been dismissed if they were masturbating in an abandoned classroom.
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    Image of thecameralovesyou thecameralovesyou
    12/09/09

    @doit2julia: Mrs. Krabappel and Principal Skinner were in the closet making babies and I saw one of the babies and then the baby looked at me.
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    Image of AnnieGoolahee AnnieGoolahee
    12/09/09

    @thecameralovesyou: I am deeply, deeply in love with you right now.
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    12/09/09

    @thecameralovesyou:
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    12/09/09

    @thecameralovesyou: [www.youtube.com]

    Arggh! I've never been able to figure out how to successfully embed on Jez.
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    12/09/09

    @doit2julia: You did it good kid. You did it good. (My husband heard that clip from the other room and chuckled very loudly)
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    12/09/09

    @AnnieGoolahee: We should find a closet to make babies in.
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    12/09/09

    @thecameralovesyou: Haha! Good ol' Ralph! Consider yourself hearted to the millionth degree!
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    12/09/09

    @Lymed: You are both right about the inappropriate behavior around students. I was just so taken aback by the tone of the story. I shouldn't be but I am.
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    12/09/09

    @thecameralovesyou: Thank you for making my day.
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    12/10/09

    @RodetheTrolleywithStanwyck: That's what I'm here for. I'm here for random Ralph quotes.
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    12/10/09

    @enthusiasmflail: Right back atcha!
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    Image of mishmisha mishmisha
    12/10/09

    @thecameralovesyou: I love this. My husband randomly says this all the time. But seriously, it seems to me that they were probably changing in the classroom for a skit or something, as someone upthread said. They must be desperate for stories.
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    thecameralovesyou promoted this comment Edited by mishmisha at 12/10/09 10:36 AM mishmisha was starred mishmisha was unstarred
    Image of nobodyr nobodyr
    12/09/09

    In reply to Teachers Caught In Intimate Moment • Texting Is "The New Lipstick On The Collar"
    Jesus Christ... I really cannot comprehend that first story. What kind of teachers have sex in their goddamn school during school hours? Seriously?
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    badmutha promoted this comment nobodyr was starred nobodyr was unstarred
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    12/09/09

    @nobodyr: Can anyone have sex at work? I am not aware of any workplaces who allow that, except of course Meredith Gray's hospital.
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    12/09/09

    @nobodyr: I don't think it was during school hours, though students were in the building - sounds like there was a talent show there in the evening.
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    12/09/09

    @badmutha: I was a teacher at a boarding school (and lived in the boarding residence with 60 highschool girls) and I started dating one of my fellow teachers who lived in the boys residence. We both had our own apartments in the residence, and we'd often hang out in his apartment (and do OTHER things in his apartment). Our higher-ups knew we were together (as did the students...or at least they guessed) and I never got shit for it. But I guess it's different when you live at work.
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    12/09/09

    @thecameralovesyou: And I'm guessing the higher-ups would have felt differently if you'd been caught having sex in his classroom while there were students in the building.
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    12/09/09

    @Breamworthy: Yes. True. We were never permitted to have sex in the classroom. We did have sex in his apartment and students were in THAT building. And I was more addressing that Badmutha was asking if anyone is allowed to have sex at work.
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    12/09/09

    @thecameralovesyou: I chuckled when you mentioned boarding schools because the New England boarding school I went to was definitely very invested in preserving the cultural image of teachers as sexless moral exemplars. Married people and those living off-campus were generally left alone by administration, but I remember that single faculty members were strongly discouraged from drinking, smoking, having lovers overnight, etc. We can't have the ickle high schoolers know about premarital sex and good wine!!! I don't think any teachers were actually disciplined for anything of that sort, although, gossipy teenagers being involved, there were rumors, but faculty members were certainly nervous about the whole thing. I remember in particular a teacher refusing to lend me a copy of Torch Song Trilogy "just to be safe" and another teacher refusing to discuss her feminist anti-pornography stance because "this conversation might be construed by some as inappropriate." Oh yeah, and the rule that barred unmarried gay couples from living in freshmen/sophomore dorms, that was fun too, and despite student-administration dialogue I believe it's still on the books. But hey, what am I saying, shitting on my ol' alma mater. Surely we've progressed far since spring 2009!
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    12/09/09

    @jtate: That seems definitely more strict that the school I was both a student at and then taught at. I do remember when I was a student I was completely in the dark about the goings on of teachers (and frankly, wasn't too interested). I kind of saw them as sexless beings. But when I was a teacher, the students seemed to love gossiping about the teachers and their personal lives.

    I don't remember ever being told not to have "overnight guests" or not to drink/smoke/etc, but it was kind of understood. I never stayed over at my boyfriends, because I can only imagine the talk when I was caught leaving in the morning. But I still don't think I'd be reprimanded for it. I guess I'll never know.
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    12/09/09

    In reply to Teachers Caught In Intimate Moment • Texting Is "The New Lipstick On The Collar"
    While it sucks, if I were a newspaper editor I'd jump ship too. There is no way I'd want to be on the sinking ship of print media right now.
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    12/09/09

    @itsonreserve: Eh, it's not that bad.
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    12/09/09

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    I prefer the "hot grits and cast iron skillet" wildly-inappropriate revenge tactic myself.
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    12/09/09

    In reply to Teachers Caught In Intimate Moment • Texting Is "The New Lipstick On The Collar"
    Okay, the malpractice case? I was sitting here all judgmental and "oh cry me a river, you were drinking underage passed out you weenie...OH HOLY SHIT AMPUTATED BOTH LEGS?!"
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    12/09/09

    @Zombie Ms. Skittles: Yeah, that's pretty horrifying. I mean, 12 hours? And no one noticed?
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    12/09/09

    @NellMood: Seriously, I thought the end was going to be that she got drawn on or puked on herself and got a rash from the vomit or something.
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    12/09/09

    @Zombie Ms. Skittles: Yeah. My sympathy-o-meter went from "oh please" to "THE HELL?!?"
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    12/09/09

    @Zombie Ms. Skittles: I can't even imagine. That's a pretty scary consequence to drinking more than you can handle.
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    12/09/09

    @Zombie Ms. Skittles: Yeah, that's going in my "terrify the young'uns" file for sure. Don't drink until you're legal, you could lose both of your legs! .... also, aaaagh!
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    12/09/09

    @NellMood: No one noticed when that woman keeled over dead in a hospital last year (or a couple of years, now).
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    Image of AndPreciousLittleofThat AndPreciousLittleofThat
    12/09/09

    @la.donna.pietra: Right! Whatever happened to the good old days when kids would wait until their twenty-first birthday to do crazy, potentially deadly shit with alcohol?

    Something tells me this lady will have a rather low-key birthday next year. I hope.
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    12/09/09

    @Dauphine: Yeah, I thought about her when I was reading this article. I understand that some ERs are dangerously understaffed, and that's a huge problem, but someone should have noticed that she was passed out and in an unsafe position.
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    12/09/09

    @NellMood: She was not sitting on her legs at the hospital.. she was at home when that happened and was eventually found by her sister and then taken to the hospital by ambulance. This article has more detail:
    [www.pittsburghlive.com]
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    12/09/09

    @Dauphine: They showed the video of the dying woman falling out of the wheelchair on our local Los Angeles news and people just walked right past her.

    I imagine this was much the same.
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    Image of yvanehtnioj yvanehtnioj
    12/09/09

    @AndPreciousLittleofThat: Oh man, I couldn't contain my horrified laugh at the thought of her having a 21st birthday bash. I'm going to hell.
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    Image of RoughHouser RoughHouser
    12/09/09

    @NellMood: Good thing she learned her lesson a year before her legal drinking age.
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    Image of GreyCat GreyCat
    12/09/09

    @la.donna.pietra: I had the same reaction, but if you read the article, she was passed out somewhere (not the emergency room) alone for 12 hours with her legs under her (a relative found her). She is suing the hospital because when she came in with complaints of pain in her legs (she was still apparently very drunk) they did not correctly diagnose her in time.

    [www.individual.com]
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    Image of NellMood NellMood
    12/09/09

    @RoughHouser: What a nightmare. Poor girl.
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    Image of NellMood NellMood
    12/09/09

    @TrudysHats: Oh, hmmm. That's different. Still incredibly tragic, but I misunderstood.
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