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...husband's urging, she was hospitalized in a psychiatric unit, dosed with Thorazine and given shock therapy. When she got out of the straitjacket, she dumped Jones and married a fellow patient with a drinking and gambling problem. She apparently hadn't yet developed her keen knack for character judgment. Faye lost custody of Michelle in court because she was certifiable now, tagged with crazy papers for life. But you don't put a foot to Billie Faye's neck without her biting your leg, so she grabbed Michelle and ran. The hell with the courts. She ran for Michelle...
When my mother was diagnosed with leukemia a year and a half ago, it was a dreadful shock to our family. At 46, she was a remarkably energetic and athletic woman. In addition to running 20 miles a week, she also spent considerable time using the vast array of exercise machines in our home. My mother had started running in medical school in order to cool her frazzled nerves, and she had never stopped. She even won two marathons in her early years...
...classes, and have the chance to live in another culture and in a grown-up world: to cook and to pay rent, to study, to watch television, to take weekend trips to Egypt or Italy. These common aspects of college elsewhere (minus the Italy thing) will be quite a shock. An apartment. That probably means furniture. Then again, I may fail at groceries and whimper back here for the spring...
...courses, it is not only teaching fellows who are occasionally ill-equipped to answer questions. I have heard from my spies that students have at times come to section--and I know this will come as a shock--without having done every word of the assigned reading. In section, contrary to students, gallant, even Herculean attempts to disguise the fact, it is usually apparent to the TF who has done the reading...
Revolution at Shock, FSNE...