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...Forbidden Love," the first-person account of the relationship between schoolteacher Mary Letourneau, now 36, and her "victim," Vili Fualaau, now 15, hit the bookstores in Paris last week. The book portrays a couple who, while fond of each other, had very different views on several issues, including the source of their attraction (She: "He is... a poet capable of lyricism, an artist full of spirit and talent"; He: "I was 12 years old and I had never f___ed anyone... I wanted to... see what it was like"); whom their relationship might affect (She: "They never told me, never...
...grandparents got married when Grandma was 16 and Grandpa was 39 (after being in love for three years). Who am I to question their actions? And who am I to question whether the feelings of 37-year-old Mary K. Letourneau and 14-year-old Vili Fualaau [CRIME, May 4] are those of true love? But I suspect that my grandparents waited until their wedding night to consummate their relationship, the first marriage for both of them. Although I do not condone the adultery and premarital sex of the Letourneau-Fualaau pair, I disagree with the sensationalist labels of "rapist...
Unless Howards works a miracle, Mary K. Letourneau will leave prison in 2005. Vili will be 21. Though the judge ordered Mary never to see him again for the rest of her life, it's hard to imagine her complying. On the other hand, seven years is an eternity for a teenager to wait for a girl. Even so, Vili says he will. "No matter how long I have to wait," he told the Globe, "I'll be there because our love is so special that nothing can stand in its way." So far, almost everything has stood...
...writing about the constrictions of the Mexican society of 50 years ago. The scriptwriters of Titanic (favorite movie of Vili Fualaau and Mary Letourneau) composed a variation on the theme of impetuous breakaway. In 1936, just as the world was preparing to blow itself apart, England's King Edward VIII and Wallis Warfield Simpson enacted their drama of self-absorbed abdication. The basic story changes little, only the details: the personalities, the stakes they play for, the icebergs waiting in the dark, and as we now see, the ages of the lovers...
...oddly, scandal and trash may sometimes be transformed upward. Mere sleaze may blossom into art. Greek tragedy told stories more lurid than afternoon television does. (Next Jerry Springer: "Guys who murdered their fathers and married their mothers.") The tale of Mary Letourneau and the boy Vili even begins to touch us now with a certain screwball Romeo-and-Juliet poignancy. There's an interesting humanity in the tale, an aberrance with something almost sweet about...