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Thanks to Dix Marie for this… So very perfect!

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Gawd, I love this man….

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Legendary actor Paul Newman dies at age 83 - Yahoo! News

Ohhhh… One of those people I never really thought would die.

Los Angeles Times file photograph
JoAnne Woodward and Newman in “The Long, Hot Summer,” 1958 - the year that they married.

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It’s been a long time since I’ve shared an Agnes story. She and I are still close in touch but as you’ve noticed, I haven’t been close in touch with YOU!

So Agnes has been through it - she’s actually talked to a domestic violence place at the urging of her counselor. I was concerned that perhaps her husband has hit her, but she says no. He’s verbally and emotionally abusive.

And here’s the thing - I’ve heard people scoff at that, at the notion of verbal and/or emotional abuse - it’s not real, it doesn’t really count. But I’ve been reading up on this and you’d better believe it’s real. And boy, does it count.

Like me, Agnes has a history of depression. And like me, hers has been treated with medication and therapy (for me, thereapy has been off and on for a kazillion years). We’re both survivors of a lot of shit.

So what does verbal abuse do to a person? It can make her, over time, dislike herself. It can make her question her own beliefs, ideas, thoughts, and even motives. The emotional side of it just blends in to make the verbal part more effective: Add to what I just described a slowly growing inability to stick up for oneself; a slowly growing yet very calculated separation from one’s friends and even family.

Where a person finds herself (or himself) is alone on an island of anger with a controlling and paranoid person - the spouse.

That’s where Agnes finds herself most times. She has her children and a few friends. I’ve told her to set up a blog for herself but she’s afraid he’ll find it. His anger controls her every move; his anger has shaped her entire sense of self. She questions her place in the universe, if she even deserves to have it.

And why not just walk out? She is slowly working towards it. But to quote Agnes, “I find that I am more entrenched in his sticky, all-consuming web than I’d ever realized before.” In fact, she said, “it’s like walking out from a deep tunnel - I didn’t realize just how deep it was until I realized I’d been walking for days and days and can still only see a tiny glimpse of light.”

It makes me so sad that Agnes is so twisted by this man. I imagine a towel, each end held in a hand, and then tightly twisted - and that’s her life, her soul, her peace of mind.

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Oh, the addition of Palin only gets richer, doesn’t it?

First, perpetuating the notion that anyone with a vagina will do (yes, perpetuating… I’ve been paired up with other women while my spouse golfs, simply because we’re women… “er, don’t all vaginas love to shop?!”).

Then… boy, aren’t you just fighting the urge to wonder if this anti-choice (remember, we don’t say “pro-life” anymore, ’cause we’re all pro LIFE!) didn’t somehow manipulate this? Okay, no, maybe not. But still… let’s see ol’ Palin address the virtues of abstinence-only sex ed now! Mwah ha haaa!

Take that, bitch!

I haven’t piped up about the election stuff at all. More to come soon, friends. I’m alive - going through some major changes!

xo,
FW

Palin says 17-year-old daughter is pregnant - Yahoo! News

By LIZ SIDOTI, Associated Press Writer 30 minutes ago

ST. PAUL, Minn. - John McCain’s running mate Sarah Palin said Monday that her 17-year-old unmarried daughter is five months pregnant, an announcement aimed at rebutting Internet rumors that Palin’s youngest son, born in April, was actually her daughter’s.

A statement released by the campaign said that Bristol Palin will keep her baby and marry the child’s father. Bristol Palin is five months pregnant, and the baby is due in late December.

“Our beautiful daughter Bristol came to us with news that as parents we knew would make her grow up faster than we had ever planned. We’re proud of Bristol’s decision to have her baby and even prouder to become grandparents,” Sarah and Todd Palin said in the brief statement.

“Bristol and the young man she will marry are going to realize very quickly the difficulties of raising a child, which is why they will have the love and support of our entire family,” they added.

Sarah Palin’s son Trig was born in April with Down syndrome. Internet bloggers have been suggesting that the child was actually born to Bristol Palin but that her mother, the Alaska governor, claimed to be the mother.

McCain adviser Mark Salter said the campaign announced the daughter’s pregnancy to rebut those rumors.

Senior McCain advisers said the Arizona senator and his top aides had known about Bristol’s pregnancy before offering Palin the No. 2 spot on the GOP ticket.

“Senator McCain’s view is this is a private family matter. As parents, (the Palins) love their daughter unconditionally and are going to support their daughter,” said McCain spokesman Steve Schmidt.

Said Schmidt: “Life happens.”

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