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> On Apr 19, 7:10?am, "chaser" <i...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>"Vox" <Vectra3...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>>Kittyn wrote:
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>>>>On Mon, 14 Apr 2008 05:54:23 -0700, Vox <Vectra3...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>>>>Ruby Vee wrote:
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>>>>>>On 2008-04-13 19:52:14 -0400, "Laura M. Young"
>>>>>><bridgeplaye...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>>>>>said:
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>>>>>>>I just rewatched Friday's episode, mostly to see the Diane and Max
>>>>>>>scenes
>>>>>>>again, but I was also struck by how many people are berating
>>>>>>>themselves
>>>>>>>for
>>>>>>>being responsible for Michael's condition. ?It occurred to me that
>>>>>>>most
>>>>>>>of
>>>>>>>the people in this town can rightfully be accused of doing, or not
>>>>>>>doing,
>>>>>>>something that would have prevented this.
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>>>>>>>1. ?In my opinion, the blame goes first and foremost to Claudia who
>>>>>>>put
>>>>>>>out
>>>>>>>the hit that sent a man with a rifle shooting in the direction of
>>>>>>>Michael.
>>>>>>>2. ?Would be Dr. Evil who actually fired the shot that did NOT hit
>>>>>>>his
>>>>>>>intended target and wound up hitting Michael instead.
>>>>>>>3. ?Sonny, of course, who after torturing Michael's biological
father
>>>>>>>into
>>>>>>>signing away his parental rights, has refused to get out of his
>>>>>>>"business"
>>>>>>>for years, despite he and people he loved nearly being killed time
>>>>>>>and
>>>>>>>again
>>>>>>>by attempts on his life.
>>>>>>>4. ?Carly, who cheated on Michael's father (her husband), and had
>>>>>>>unprotected *** with a man she didn't even like who was a known
>>>>>>>mobster, and
>>>>>>>then conspired with him to get Michael away from his dad and
allowed
>>>>>>>Sonny
>>>>>>>to adopt Michael despite knowing what Sonny was, and then going
back
>>>>>>>to
>>>>>>>him
>>>>>>>time and time again even though she saw repeatedly what danger her
>>>>>>>kids
>>>>>>>were
>>>>>>>in because of him.
>>>>>>>5. ?Jason, who was Michael's first "father" and swears that he
adores
>>>>>>>the
>>>>>>>kid, but not enough to get out of the "business" and encourage
Sonny
>>>>>>>to
>>>>>>>do
>>>>>>>so too to keep the kid (s) safe.
>>>>>>>6 & 7. ?Alexis shares Diane's guilt in repeatedly keeping Sonny out
>>>>>>>of
>>>>>>>jail
>>>>>>>where he wouldn't have been a threat to his children.
>>>>>>>8. ?Max, who was the professional bodyguard, who should have
insisted
>>>>>>>that
>>>>>>>Michael not go anywhere without protection.
>>>>>>>9. ?Kate, who encouraged Sonny to take Michael to see what his
>>>>>>>"non-mobster"
>>>>>>>dad did for a living. (I've forgotten whose idea it was initially.)
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>>>>>>I'd put Kate number three on that list -- it was her idea for
Michael
>>>>>>to
>>>>>>be there in the first place, and she talked Sonny into it when he
>>>>>>didn't
>>>>>>think it was a good idea. ?Turns out he was right. ?Interestingly
>>>>>>enough, she and Devlin are the only two people involved who aren't
>>>>>>blaming themselves for the disaster!
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>>>>>>>15 -18. + ?AJ, Alan, ?Monica, Edward and the rest of the
>>>>>>>Quartermaines,
>>>>>>>for
>>>>>>>not using all their money and power to maintain joint custody of
>>>>>>>Michael
>>>>>>>which would have gotten him out of the hands of Sonny and his
mobster
>>>>>>>friends at least part of the time (the night he was shot MIGHT have
>>>>>>>been one
>>>>>>>of those times)
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>>>>>>>I'm sure I'm forgetting others who could get on this game too.
>>
>>>>>>Ruby
>>
>>>>>The BLAME goes first to Carly for tying her son up to a mobster!!
>>>>>That's
>>>>>FIRST on this stupid "too much time on your hands" list.
>>
>>>>>Vox
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>>>>Actually, if you want to go that route, then Robin is ultimately
>>>>responsible also. ?Because if she had never betrayed Jason's
>>>>confidence, Jason would have continued to be Michael's public father,
>>>>Carly would never have married AJ and probably never would have slept
>>>>with Sonny. ?If Jason was still Michael's "father", you can be damn
>>>>sure that he would never have taken Michael someplace dangerous
>>>>without protection and would have definitely protected his son first
>>>>and foremost before he jumped on a woman he was dating.
>>
>>>Those are just assumptions. ?Jason wouldn't be any more of a safer
>>>"father" than Sonny because he is a...hello?...MOBSTER, hitman and
>>>murderer. ?Yes, I'd choose that over Sonny anyday. ?<sigh>
>>
>>>It's on Carly to protect her children from harm's way initially. ?In
>>>fact,
>>>I am on the bandwagaon that if a woman has small children and ends up
>>>divorced or widowed, she needs to make the children her priority and
put
>>>off her dating life and remarriages until after the children are raised
>>>and grown.
>>
>>>Vox
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>>Why that's just the goofiest thing I've ever heard...
>>
>>Why should a woman deprive herself or her children of a male influence,
>>especially a good one? Sure women make bad choices all the time---but
>>there
>>are some really decent step-parents out there. Talk about an argument
>>fallen
>>flat.
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>>Damn good thing my mother didn't subscribe to "your bandwagon".
>>
>>Sheesh...
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> I have to agree. I could've raised my kids on my own. But without
> skills when my husband died, I would've had to take a menial job and
> live in a low-rent neighborhood. My kids would've suffered no matter
> how hard I tried. I could've done it. But thank god I met and married
> a wonderful man who is and always has been a steller father. Raising
> kids is hard enough with two people doing it together. Choosing the
> single parent route may be right for some folks but I'm glad I didn't
> take that way. And both my husbands grew up in *Beaver Cleaver*
> households, raised by their moms and their stepfathers. And nobody,
> then or now, uses the word *step* either!
>
> PJ
>
>
> I wouldn't trade my dad and younger brother for anything. My mom would
have
> had to live with her parents, my grandmother wouldn't have gotten
re-married
> after my grandfather's death and we would have been deprived not only of
a
> grandfather, father and brother, but a decent living and great schools.
> Like I said, it's an idiotic bandwagon and I'm certainly glad my mother
knew
> better than to try that martyr crap.
>
>
> LauraH
>
>
Again...glad it worked out for you but the proof is out there that is
usually does not.
Vox
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