[QUOTE=Boyo Jim]
Say whatever you will about it, America is the unquestioned superpower of bad taste.
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A much better story from the land of bad taste would be how mom turned the six year old out in order to earn enough to buy HM tickets. Now that she has one she has sucked her last. I would have to award tickets to that type of dedication.
SSG Schwartz
On the bright side, the kid did get an internship at The New York Times!
[QUOTE=ivylass]
Is her father truly serving in Iraq? Is her father even in the picture?
If her father is serving in Iraq, I can see a frank, short discussion with his wife when he comes home.
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And if he IS serving in Iraq and DOES get killed, what a guilt trip in later years! (Or not, if she turns out anything like her mother.)
The first clue should have been that the supposed essay was written by a six-year-old. Since when do kids this age know how to write essays?
Well, it’s less of an essay and more of four short sentences. See mobo85’s post for the full text. I guess it’s possible that a bright six-year-old could have written that. Did she write it? Who knows.
[QUOTE=Gatopescado]
On the bright side, the kid did get an internship at The New York Times!
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I heard [sub]th[/sub]at she was [sub]th[/sub]e new war correspondent of CBS News.
For the record, the complete text was “My daddy died this year in Iraq. I am going to give mommy the Angel pendant that daddy put on mommy when she was having me. I had it in my jewelry box since that day. I love my mommy.” Besides reminding me of that “I wuv my mommy” greeting card from Futurama*, it doesn’t really strike me as something a “bright” six-year-old could have written- pretty much any six-year-old. But whether or not she actually wrote it, I have no idea.
[sub]*You created me, Mom, so I guess you’re to blame
For the feeling I get just by saying your name.
You’re tender like roast beef and warm like pastrami.
(five notes) I wuv my mommy![/sub]
Fair enough. I don’t even remember the last time I was around a six-year-old, so it’s hard to judge.
[QUOTE=saoirse]
It is contemptible, but the contest sounds like “Queen for a Day.” Apparently there was once a game show in which women would describe their hard-luck lives, and the most pitiable would win valuable prizes. I wonder what the criteria for the essay contest were.
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My late mother-in-law went on that show back in the late fifties.
She won, too.
[QUOTE=kaylasdad99]
My late mother-in-law went on that show back in the late fifties.
She won, too.
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Did she claim her husband died in Korea? 
[QUOTE=Sophistry and Illusion]
Blech. My wife and I are both from the South, so that gives me the right to say, “What the hell is wrong with these people?” My wife went to school wth a girl named Misty Dawn [lastname].
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Heh. My wife’s first guide dog was named Misty Dawn.
Thus endeth the two posts in a row that can be shoehorned into relevance to kaylasdad99’s life.
BTW, there’s no way the “boutique” in question is going to go out of business defending any lawsuit this mother may bring. It’s Club Libby Lu, fer Pete’s sake.
Also, Ms. Ceballos may wish to retrieve her daughter’s essay and submit it to the current administration. She might win a seat next to the First Lady at the 2008 SOTU address. Seems like their kinda story.
[QUOTE=Boyo Jim]
Did she claim her husband died in Korea?
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No, evidently the cutthroat culture of “Win at all costs” back in the day was so underdeveloped that being a mother of four with a little blind daughter was enough to get the Amana Freezer.
It’s a good thing she won, though. I’m not sure what the little boy in the iron lung would have been able to do with a Braille edition of My Friend Flicka.