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Ladytex
Member

09-27-2001

Friday, February 27, 2004 - 11:26 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I'm losing my mind ... tomorrow, one of my precious days off, I will be chaperoning close to 100 teenagers, all day, at a Youth Conference. I don't drink, but I think I may need one when this is all over ...

Wargod
Member

07-16-2001

Friday, February 27, 2004 - 11:36 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I admire your dedication, Lady! They may not show it, but they probably appreciate the fact that you are willing to spend your day off with them.

Juju2bigdog
Member

10-27-2000

Saturday, February 28, 2004 - 12:28 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Actually, I think Wardog is the one who has been drinking. Teenagers appreciate the chaperones? Yeah, right.

Uhhhhhhhhhh, have fun, Ladytex. They have really good margaritias in Texas. Get a frozen one with salt on the rim at Taco Cabana.

Wargod
Member

07-16-2001

Saturday, February 28, 2004 - 12:39 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
LOL, no drinking. They may not appreciate the chaperone, but they probably appreciate the fact that someone cares enough to be there for them, even if they don't like it. That's not to say I don't think Lady is insane, LOL, 100 teens is about 100 too many for me!

Mocha
Member

08-12-2001

Saturday, February 28, 2004 - 11:40 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I hope Ladyt's having a margarita for me too.

Ladytex
Member

09-27-2001

Sunday, February 29, 2004 - 11:04 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
LOL, well margaritas were unnecessary. I had a wonderful time with them. I feel spiritually refreshed.

Jhezzie
Member

07-05-2001

Monday, March 01, 2004 - 1:50 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
In any place, at any time, for any reason, someone is offended. Sigh...

Hippyt
Member

09-10-2001

Tuesday, March 02, 2004 - 1:32 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I didn't know where to put this,but this is an incredible story.
Police: Baby Thought Killed In '97 Fire Was Kidnapped
Details Still Emerging About Case

POSTED: 8:41 a.m. EST March 2, 2004
UPDATED: 2:41 p.m. EST March 2, 2004

PHILADELPHIA -- The mother of a Philadelphia girl who was thought to have died in a house fire in 1997 is eagerly awaiting a reunion with her daughter.

Delimar Vera was just 10 days old when the fire destroyed her family's home in the Feltonville section of North Philadelphia on Dec. 15, 1997. Although a body was never found, authorities believed the infant had been consumed by the heat and flames of the fast-moving blaze.

But not everything added up, according to state Rep. Angel Cruz. Cruz said a woman had come to the house twice on the day of the fire, and left once with the baby's father, Pedro Vera.

Now, police say, it turns out that the infant was actually kidnapped by a woman who set the blaze to cover her tracks.

In January, the girl's mother, Luz Aida Cuevas, contacted police after spotting the now-6-year-old girl at a birthday party thrown by Vera's side of the family and recognizing the child as her own.

"I looked at her. She walked in front of me. She looked at me. I looked at her. I said to my sister, 'That is my daughter. She got my daughter.' My sister said, 'You have to take it easy. You need proof. We have to find proof,'" Cuevas said.

Luz Cuevas told The Associated Press Tuesday that she recognized the girl and was certain that it was her daughter, Delimar Vera. She says she pretended that the little girl had chewing gum stuck in her hair to remove five strands from the child's head.

She folded them in a napkin and placed them in a plastic bag, which she locked in a safe at home, then turned over to authorities. Cuevas says she knew from watching television that they would need hair for DNA tests.

"She bumps into the lady who had come to her house the day of the fire, and she sees the lady with a child, and all of a sudden, her motherly instincts say, 'that's my child.' She left there saying, 'that's my child, that's my baby," Rep. Cruz said.

The investigation was reopened and the DNA test results announced Monday confirmed that the girl Cuevas saw is her missing daughter.

Delimar has been placed in the custody of New Jersey Division of Youth and Family Services. It is not clear when she will be reunited with her biological mother, but Cuevas knows how she will greet her daughter.

She said that she will "go and give her a kiss and a hug and say, 'I love you, I love you."'

Police have issued a warrant for the arrest of 41-year-old Carolyn Correa of Willingboro, N.J., on charges of arson, kidnapping and conspiracy. She remains at large.


She was last seen living in Willingboro, N.J., driving a burgundy 2003 Chevrolet with a New Jersey license plate of NTL71H.

Birth Mother Talks To WCAU-TV

Philadelphia TV station WCAU-TV talked exclusively to Cuevas about her relief at finally finding her daughter.

"I screamed (when I was told the test results). I felt so happy. I don't know what to say. Cry? You know, because I was in shock when they say, 'It's your daughter,'" Cuevas said happily.

Cuevas said she knew she had just met her daughter because she recognized the moles on the girl's cheek. She also said the girl looked like her sons, who never gave up hope they would be reunited with their sister.

"Every Christmas, my sons say, 'Mommy, we have to find (her).' I said, 'Don't worry, we'll find her.' I knew she was alive," Cuevas said.

Cuevas is thrilled, but she also has bitter questions for the woman accused of kidnapping her child.

"Why'd she do that to me? Kidnapping my daughter? You know? She do a fire to my house to take my daughter," Cuevas said.

Correa's husband told WCAU that he is devastated to find out the girl he thought was his daughter belonged to someone else.

Girl's Birth Father Says He's Stunned

Pedro Vera said was stunned and excited that his daughter was alive and revisited the address where he last saw her. He told WCAU-TV that he couldn't wait to see his daughter.

Vera went to the same birthday party where Cuevas first laid eyes on Delimar. Correa is his cousin and introduced the girl to him as her own daughter, named Aaliyah.

"I got the feeling that was my daughter because she looked like me," Vera said.

Vera also had the feeling that the girl looked just like his son.

"A lot of years, I think she's dead. And now, when I looked at her and I said, 'Oh my God, that's my daughter. She's not dead,'" Vera told WCAU.


Kaili
Member

08-31-2000

Tuesday, March 02, 2004 - 1:36 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Hippy, I saw that on the news this morning. Amazing that she managed to run into her little girl after all that time.

Kaili
Member

08-31-2000

Tuesday, March 02, 2004 - 1:42 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
The thing I don't get though, is how she lost her baby in the fire in the first place? I mean, if your home is burning and you have a baby, don't you get that baby into your arms before you go out the door? If you know your baby is in the house that's burning, wouldn't you be in that house until you got that baby in your arms? The only explanation I can think of is that dad thought mom went for the baby and mom thought dad went. They thought the baby burned. Did this kidnapper go into the burning building, then sneak out with the baby? How?

Amazing, but confusing.

Egbok
Member

07-13-2000

Tuesday, March 02, 2004 - 1:44 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Hi Hippy,

I saw a the picture of the mother and a picture of the little girl on the national news this morning and they looked like twins!! Amazing news, isn't it?!!


Hippyt
Member

09-10-2001

Tuesday, March 02, 2004 - 1:48 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Yeah,Kaili,really confusing. I don't think they know many detail right now. I also wondered how the husband of the kidnapper was led to believe that this new baby showing up out of nowhere was his?

Landi
Member

07-29-2002

Tuesday, March 02, 2004 - 1:55 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
the mom ended up with burns on her face trying to rescue the baby. (that wasn't there anyways) they thought the baby had been cremated (burned to ash) from the fire. the kidnapper had been at the house right before the fire started to get a "purse she left". there had been a party at the house that day. she was a cousin of the birth father. it's an INCREDIBLE story

Julieboo
Member

02-05-2002

Tuesday, March 02, 2004 - 2:53 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
How stupid was the kidnapper to go to a party where the real mom/family might show up at?!!!



Ddr
Member

08-19-2001

Tuesday, March 02, 2004 - 7:07 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Just got this from a friend of mine.

"Life is not a journey to the grave with the
intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but
rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and
loudly proclaiming..................

"WOW!! What a RIDE!!"


Pamy
Member

01-02-2002

Tuesday, March 02, 2004 - 8:10 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
This story gives me chills!!!! I agree Julie! and how did she explain all of a sudden having a baby? she is a cousin so why didnt any of the family ever question that might be the other womans kid??? GOD 6 yrs is a long time!

I am so glad she found her child!!!

Pamy
Member

01-02-2002

Tuesday, March 02, 2004 - 8:21 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
THEY JUST CAUGHT THE KIDNAPPER!!!! Bill's mom lives 10 min from her and they broke into their local tv station to say that..details at 11!

Jmm
Member

08-16-2002

Wednesday, March 03, 2004 - 7:20 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Ok, I didn't know where else to post this. It was in my hometown weekly newspaper in the editorials and I absolutely loved it.

They walked in tandem, each of the ninety-three students filing into the already crowded auditorium. With rich maroon gowns flowing and the traditional caps, they looked almost as grown up as they felt. Dads swallowed hard behind broad smiles, and moms freely brushed away tears.

This class would not pray during the commencements--not by choice but because of a recent court ruling prohibiting it.

The principal and several students were careful to stay within the guidelines allowed by the ruling.

They gave inspirational and challenging speeches, but no one mentioned divine guidance and no one asked for blessings on the graduates or their families.

The speeches were nice, but they were routine--until the final speech received a standing ovation. A solitary student walked proudly to the microphone He stood still and silent for just a moment, and then, it happened.

All 92 students, every single one of them, suddenly SNEEZED!!!!

The student on stage simply looked at the audience and said, "GOD BLESS YOU, each and every one of you!" And he walked off stage.

The audience exploded into applause.

The graduating class found a unique way to invoke God's blessing on their future with or without the court's approval.

Lancecrossfire
Moderator

07-13-2000

Wednesday, March 03, 2004 - 11:24 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Watch your thoughts, for they become words. Choose your words, for they become actions. Understand your actions, for they become habits. Study your habits, for they will become your character. Develop your character, for it becomes your destiny.

Tabbyking
Member

03-11-2002

Thursday, March 04, 2004 - 10:37 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
OBITUARY

________________________________________________

Today we mourn the passing
of a beloved old friend by the name of
Common Sense
who has been with us for many years.

No one knows for sure how old he was
since his birth records
were long ago lost in bureaucratic red tape.

He will be remembered
as having cultivated such value lessons as
knowing when to come in out of the rain,
why the early bird gets the worm and
that life isn't always fair.

Common Sense
lived by simple, sound financial policies
(don't spend more than you earn)
and reliable parenting strategies
(adults, not kids, are in charge).

His health began to rapidly deteriorate
when well intentioned but overbearing regulations
were set in place.

Reports of a six-year-old boy
charged with sexual harassment
for kissing a classmate;
teens suspended from school
for using mouthwash after lunch;
and a teacher fired
for reprimanding an unruly student,
only worsened his condition.

It declined even further
when schools were required to get parental consent
to administer aspirin to a student;
but, could not inform the parents
when a student became pregnant
and wanted to have an abortion.

Finally,
Common Sense lost the will to live
as the Ten Commandments became contraband;
churches became businesses;
and criminals received better treatment
than their victims.

Common Sense finally gave up the ghost
after a woman failed to realize
that a steaming cup of coffee was hot,
she spilled a bit in her lap,
and was awarded a huge settlement

Common Sense
was preceded in death
by his parents, Truth and Trust,
his wife, Discretion;
his daughter, Responsibility;
and his son, Reason.

He is survived by two stepbrothers;
My Rights and Ima Whiner.

Not many attended his funeral
because so few realized he was gone...

Spitfire
Member

07-18-2002

Thursday, March 04, 2004 - 10:46 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
I really like that Tabby...Thanks!!

Essence
Member

01-12-2002

Thursday, March 04, 2004 - 11:13 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Death is more universal than life; everyone dies
but not everyone lives.

A. Sachs

Essence
Member

01-12-2002

Monday, March 08, 2004 - 11:59 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
13 Things About You
====================

1. Someone in this world loves you, in some way.
2. A smile from you, can bring happiness to anyone, even if they don't like you.
3. Every night, SOMEONE thinks about you before they go to sleep.
4. You mean the world to someone.
5. Without you, someone may not be living.
6. You are special and unique, in your own way.
7. Someone that you don't know even exists, loves you.
8. When you make the biggest mistake ever, something good comes from it.
9. When you think the world has turned it's back on you, take a look, you most likely turned your back on the world.
10.When you think you have no chance at getting what you want, you probably won't get it, but if you believe in yourself, you probably sooner or later will get it.
11.Always remember complements you received, forget about the rude remarks.
12.Always tell someone how you feel about them, you will feel much better when they know.
13.If you have a great friend, take the time to let them know that they are great. If you choose, send this letter to as many people as you care about, you'll brighten up someone's day, and might change their perspective on life, for the better!

~Author Unknown~

Ladytex
Member

09-27-2001

Tuesday, March 09, 2004 - 3:05 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
Dear Abby column yanked
Letter too closely mirrors episode of 'The Simpsons'

http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/03/09/abby.prank.ap/index.html

lol

Essence
Member

01-12-2002

Tuesday, March 09, 2004 - 3:20 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post    
All I can say is eww...

Woman Discovers Fingertip In Salad
Friday, March 5, 2004
Posted: 11:50 AM EST

CANTON, Ohio (AP) -- Talk about leaving a bad tip at the restaurant.

A 22-year-old woman found the severed tip of a thumb in her lunch salad at Red Robin Gourmet Burgers.

Stark County Health Commissioner Bill Franks said a worker at the restaurant, in the Canton suburb Jackson Township about 70 miles south of Cleveland, was chopping lettuce Monday night when he cut off part of his left thumb, including part of the fingernail.

Employees searched for the fingertip, but could not find it. The area was cleaned and sanitized, but the lettuce was placed in a cooler and then used for salads on Tuesday.

"It wound up being served at lunch time Tuesday to a 22-year-old woman," Franks said.

She had eaten most of her salad when she put the fingertip in her mouth, Franks said.

She first thought it was a piece of gristle, a health department report said.

Red Robin spokesman Dwayne Chambers said employees, in their haste to get the injured man to a doctor, failed to follow the chain's procedures and throw out all food in the area.

"We clearly had a breakdown," he said. "We are incredibly sorry about what happened."

Chambers said he spoke with the woman. "She obviously was pretty upset," he said.

CNN Article