From: lanngardner@gmail.com   
      
   On Thursday, December 17, 2009 at 11:54:44 PM UTC-5, Kim wrote:   
   > Dover Beach wrote:   
   > > "Kim"  wrote in   
   > > news:hgeggr$hce$1...@news.eternal-september.org:   
   > >   
   > >> Lee Ayrton wrote:   
   > >>> On Fri, 11 Dec 2009 16:15:03 -0800, crazymaker...@gmail.com   
   > >>> wrote:   
   > >>>   
   > >>>   
   > >>>> Things are tough at my sister's. She will be glad to have us out,   
   > >>>> I'm sure. In a way, I wish I hadn't called the police, but I think   
   > >>>> I did the right thing. Everything is just so difficult, now, on so   
   > >>>> many levels. My options are extremely limited if my petition is not   
   > >>>> approved on Thursday. I either go to the safehouse, which means   
   > >>>> Audrey would have to switch schools among other things, go back to   
   > >>>> the house he is in and stay until I can get my own place, or head   
   > >>>> back to Malone, which would be tough.   
   > >>>   
   > >>> You're backsliding. Stop it.   
   > >>>   
   > >>> If you go back to that house with him in it you will have AFC-A to   
   > >>> deal with.   
   > >>   
   > >> She's going back tomorrow.   
   > >>   
   > >>   
   > >   
   > > Nooo! Wait, really?   
   > Yes, really. Leslie feels that she has worn out her welcome at her sister's   
   > house, and she had no where else to go.   
   > Today was the hearing on her petition and it was postponed yet again. Her ex   
   > had a process server waiting for her on the courthouse steps to serve her   
   > with divorce papers, and he is seeking a divorce on the grounds that not   
   > only was she was physically and emotionally abusive to him, but that she is   
   > guilty of a "gross neglect of duty" in the marriage.   
   > She also isn't allowed to take their daughter out of the county, so coming   
   > back here is out of the question.   
   > Which, she feels, leaves her with no choice but to go back to his house.   
   > My only concern is that there is no phone service there, since he had it   
   > turned off. So if he goes off the deep end again, she is kind of fucked if   
   > her older daughter can't get out of the house to get to a neighbor's phone.   
   > Well, no, I lie, that isn't my *only* concern. Frankly I have hundreds of   
   > concerns, but as much as I love Leslie, I really don't have the spare   
   > emotional energy to devote to the situation. It's all way too frustrating   
   > for me.   
   > --   
   > Kim   
   > www.thedarwinexception.wordpress.com   
   > * To me, boxing is like a ballet, except there's no music, no choreography,   
   > and the dancers hit each other.*   
   Just saw this, reminiscing. Hmmm.   
      
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