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Greg - 2007-09-17 08:30:18
Awww... Love is the drug that I'm thinking of...
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amatt - 2007-09-17 10:34:31
Love. Just when you think you know what it is...
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Sharon - 2007-09-17 11:10:13
Paula- What a lovely story. As an atheist of sorts, it exemplifies my feeling about what "the holy spirit" might be.The wink that you might miss in CCD class (the Catholic version of Sunday school in the 60s and 70s, do they still call it that?) is that the "kingdom of God" is among you and within you. A lot of lovingkindness within them and surrounding them.Schweet
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Paula - 2007-09-17 11:53:06
There was a bunch of heart-warming wedding announcements in this week's Times, exemplifying that pot/lid theory, but I didn't want to just keep linking to the ol' Grey Hound or whatever they call it.
There was also an announcement about the wedding 'twixt the two main Develop Don't Destroy Brooklyn folks, who are Freddy's regulars, but the story isn't in the online edition.
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Greg - 2007-09-17 19:47:22
There were two movies I recall about developmentally disabled adults getting married. One starred Richard Thomas and the other Shaun Cassidy... They were sad and I have to say real eye openers. God forgive me... you just forget sometimes or it just never occurs to you... and I was ashamed I'd held a whole segment of the world in such... disregard for lack of a better term... everybody wants to be the apple of someones eye and vice versa... That said, the performances were less than stellar. I believe one starred Linda Purl as well.
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Paula - 2007-09-17 20:31:55
The Shaun Cassidy one was called Like Normal People--which at one point was a contender as a band name.
The Richard Thomas one starred Julie Kavner and was called No Other Love. It also came out in 1979, a banner year.
How do I know this? I watched a LOT of TV in the late 1970s.
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Paula - 2007-09-17 20:47:04
All this talk of 1970s TV is making me nostalgic for the days when Angel Dust was upsetting parents and law enforcers everywhere.
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Greg - 2007-09-17 21:04:38
That's because of that time the guy on angel dust snapped out of the handcuffs and picked up that busload of kids and threw it through the wall of a church...
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Bina - 2007-09-18 07:41:44
Does anyone remember the time some guy kidnapped a whole busload of kids and buried them underground? That story haunted me all through my childhood - that, and the pictures of Jim Jones's followers dead in Guyana.
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Rebecca - 2007-09-18 10:04:35
If you'd like to check in on Linda Purl... I too was haunted by that bus thing. It happened in California (where I lived) in a place called Chowchilla. To this day I can't even hear the word "Chinchilla" without getting freaked out. I was also very scared about Patty Hearst and the SLA.
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Paula - 2007-09-18 11:49:16
Chowchilla! Yes, it's all coming back to me.
The East Coast version of that was, of course, Son of Sam. Even though my friends and I were out of his shooting range and demographic, he was the ready-made monster of the day.
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Paula - 2007-09-18 11:52:58
Chowchilla kidnapping
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Greg - 2007-09-19 09:15:50
Growing up in the Hudson Valley, we were neighbors of what was then The Matawan Penetentiary for the Criminally Insane. They had really horrible record for escapes and at least once every couple years, alerts would go out. The records of some of the escapees were bizarre... There was regularly some monster at large... seriously... axe murderers and cannibals and assorted freaks.
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