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Wednesday 21 August 2013

Did you hear about the woman that received 50 child support receipts on one son? She had relations with about 50 different people in a two month period, got pregnant by invitro fertilisation with an unidentified seed donor and rejected all the men with whom she had relations. They eventually found wives and girlfriends. By the time the child was two, she contacted the fifty putative fathers of the son and let them know that she needed support. Everyone was either too cautious or concerned about their wife or girlfriend so they paid something. No one understood how many partners she really had in that small time frame. In fact, it was about 350 partners. A similar story appeared on Donahue once. See the archives. It will be a tv movie in the same series of films that include the "Perfect Assistant". Her favourite bible passage was John 4 for some reason; especially the part about soo many husbands and the one that she was with was not her own. It told her quite a bit about herself and the solution Christ gave. She loved to argue about Proverbs 2,5,6,7,9 and 11. While doing this, she wore a T-shirt with "Proverbs 31" written on it. The writer was the same as Proverbs 2 and 7 apparently. Psalms 63:1-7 was circled in her first husband's bible. It was the only passage he read to her. He tried 1st Corinthians 13 but she would get upset every time he read the word love or the phrase "love is" in the passage. So he switched to Psalms 63:1-7. She was at church though in time to turn on the coffee maker without fail every week. She used to run the Sunday school but kept on insisting that the class should watch the opening scenes of Sleeping Beauty but without any scriptural cross-reference. The pastor could not find any common ground when insisting on the cross-references so she chose the choir instead. He had only suggested that she forgive her grandmother since she said that her grandmother was her reason in playing the opening scene every week. He did not understand except that it had something to do with her Gran wanting recruits like Maleficent. Choir and coffee-making were two suggestions as the best options until she could say the words "I forgive." She decided to take the Pastor's suggestions since her grandmother, as she recalls, argued with the Pastor at the front door every Sunday and she was the only woman in the church who would do this while loosening the first button on her blouse; every week. She said she felt hot often as the summer and winter breeze connected with the hairs on her leg. But, she wasn't clear about what she meant since she called the drummer or the organist her leg as well. Her Grandmother did not choose her as a recruit since she was too thin. She did not know why her grandmother was recruiting but that was the best way to describe her overtures. Her Grandmother knew what she was looking for. She could have internalised this as rejection but her Granddad said she was to be a volleyball player and that is why God made her wiry thin and able to sing quite well. Being thin helped her to hit the high notes and she should not feel rejection. It was time to let her Grandma go, it should be said, figuratively but certainly emotionaly and to show thanks at least for the scones and tea as she would always eat them rather happily when Gran put them on the table. It was time to be all that God had intended as she started to remember how she felt at the age of 3 or 5 before her father whispered negative words in her ears and Gran said she was just too too thin.

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