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Old 08-07-2004, 06:44 AM
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This one would test the wisdom of Solomon I just don't know what the right answer is. She's a piece of work, no doubt about it. What she did makes my skin crawl. I teach COLLEGE age students, and I don't think that's a line I can cross. There's no way she was justified.

But now? Hell, they're adults. I'm sure it's not a healthy relationship, but I can find three other unhealthy relationships just on my floor at work...and no-one's legislating against them. Should she be rewarded for her behaviour then or the tenacity of her obsession? No, of course not. But keeping this poor guy sheltered from her for the last decade obviously hasn't done him any good. Maybe letting him get a realistic look at her without all the heightened arousal of the "Romeo and Juliet" syndrome might shake him out of it. Or it might make it worse.

But when there's no obvious right answer in a situation, you have to defend the principle. Here, if you held a gun to my head and made me vote, I'd have to say that adults have the right to make mistakes. Even ones that are screamingly obvious to the rest of us.

But hell yeah, keep her away from kids as much as possible.
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