I get the basics, but can someone please explain why her husband is pretty much a fetus and locked up? Or who her kids belong to? Or if this inmate husband has custody of her children when she passes? I think I missed the beginnings of this story.
"I will come back from heaven to look after my boys" - Okay, I'm sure that's meant to be terribly sweet and so on, and no doubt people who actually believe in heaven and evil reality TV show ghosts and so forth love it, but it is REALLY, REALLY creepy.
@Robert Synnott: I heard she'd been baptised, as had her sons, so that they could keep in touch after she's gone to heaven. The woman has mistaken an act which symbolises being reborn into a life devoted to God for signing up to some sort of Twitter from Beyond the Grave.
Perhaps she's not completely convinced how reliable this method of communication will be - I must admit I'm not either - and plans to visit them in person if it actually doesn't work...
You might have to wear condoms on your fingers when you read that stuff. Morbid, louche, tastless, crass -- I think, ladies and gentlemen of the Jury, that we've actually found a media organization more deisgustingly bottom-feeder than Viacom's VH1!
Why begrudge her the chance to make money while she's dying? Regardless of whether you agree with it or not, her public persona is her vocation and it's not like she can take it with her. It's obvious the funds will go to her children, which she has said her aim was in all of this anyway.
I would also guess that the magazines/tv stations, etc that are covering this story will make far, far more money off of it then she will, they wouldn't waste their time and effort in sometihng that isn't a money making venture for them.
And regardless of whether you like her or not, she has brought awareness to the issue of younger women getting cervical cancer and how important getting tested is.
@rednrowdy: Yes. She's been having abnormal smears since she was 16 (back then, smears only started at 20; now it's 25 yrs old), and had pre-cancerous cells removed before. Why did she ignore the latest abnormal test for so long? She's been living with this her entire adult life.
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And for that reason they got beef with the Sarah Lawrence faculty.
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that list! And, it's an e-mail round-table! How do I get in on this?
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Perhaps she's not completely convinced how reliable this method of communication will be - I must admit I'm not either - and plans to visit them in person if it actually doesn't work...
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Cuckoo, but sweet.
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You stay classy, OK!
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I would also guess that the magazines/tv stations, etc that are covering this story will make far, far more money off of it then she will, they wouldn't waste their time and effort in sometihng that isn't a money making venture for them.
And regardless of whether you like her or not, she has brought awareness to the issue of younger women getting cervical cancer and how important getting tested is.
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the whole thing is really strange.
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[www.metro.co.uk]
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