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    jinniJE Reich
    6/21/16 10:39pm

    WE NEED A RECURRING DAILY GOOD NEWS (NON-CELEBRITY RELATED) POST ON JEZ. MY BRAIN CAN NO LONGER TAKE ALL OF THE MADNESS AND HURT IN THE WORLD IN ONE SMALL SPACE.

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      chritter is a nocturnal feminist mancatfishjinni
      6/21/16 10:44pm

      SECOND!

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      ILikeThunderstormsjinni
      6/21/16 10:46pm

      Agreed. In the interim, enjoy this picture of my cute dog? She loves you, I promise!

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    Socks Are My Favorite ClothesJE Reich
    6/21/16 11:52pm

    Is anyone else tired of being a member of the female sex? Anyone else tired and depressed and disgusted by these continuous and never-ending stories of men doing inexplicable things to girls/women simply because they can? Is it affecting you to the point that you can't interact with people anymore? Because I am about at that point. I am just about at the hermit point.

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      Firefly75Socks Are My Favorite Clothes
      6/21/16 11:58pm

      Well said. I hate the fact that it is invariably girls who are the victims of child abuse, and men inevitably the perpetrators.

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      Socks Are My Favorite ClothesFirefly75
      6/22/16 12:03am

      Yeah. It is so pervasive, even in the adult world. Yet men wonder why we don't accept their drinks or their advances when we are out with our girlfriends. WE ARE FUCKING TERRIFIED OF YOU.

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    MajorBurnJE Reich
    6/21/16 10:37pm

    Awful.

    Sometimes it seems like parents who separate from their co-parent just shouldn’t date till the kids are grown, but then I remember all the bio parents who hurt their kids. Not really sure what social tactic/screen prevents this. :(

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      dcgirl13MajorBurn
      6/21/16 11:31pm

      Having good self esteem helps! Some of it with bio parents too seems to be a pathological fear of being alone. So they won’t see behavior that means get out.

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      eugene levy's eyebrowsMajorBurn
      6/21/16 11:31pm

      These cases are so fucking sad. Like, I just cannot see harming any child, but it’s almost always a case where these kids are hurt or killed as some sort of revenge or in a fit of rage that really has nothing to do with them. It’s to hurt their parent, for whatever awful reason.

      I am a stepparent and have been raising my stepson for 12-ish years. (His mom has not been present since he was a baby.) It’s very tricky and honestly, raising him has been a much discussed (and argued over) issue during the entirety of our relationship. I not only have had to deal with differences between Mr. Levy and myself, but I’ve also heard all sorts of noise from my IL’s (whom helped raise him prior to Mr. Levy and I meeting, living together, engagement/marriage). It’s a hard row to hoe. The Mr. and I have ironed out many of our differences, but it took a long time to get to where we are and it’s not perfect. I know that my IL’s still have opinions. I’ve definitely learned to let most of it roll off me, because I know I’m a good, present parent and made a choice to be a mom to him.

      I understand your sentiment. I don’t regret any choices I’ve made and I love both my husband and stepson very much, but I would caution people who sought my counsel to discuss a laundry list of things before deciding to be in a long-term relationship with someone who has kids. I wish I would have had someone advise me. I have stepmom friends who have it way worse than I ever have (and they have to deal with co-parenting with an ex), but my group is basically a bunch of us who started out in this life at the same time (to varying degrees of success...I’d say 50-60% of them ended up divorced (or almost there).)

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    JujyMonkey: Clever tagline goes hereJE Reich
    6/21/16 10:54pm

    “Noyes, who separated from Cass’ mother months after the murder, exhibited odd behavior after his stepdaughter’s abduction and subsequent death—which included crawling in front of cameras on the front porch of his former home after pretending to throw an imaginary grenade—after being questioned in front of the press by a local detective.”

    If this is ‘odd behavior’ , what constitutes batshit crazy behavior?

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      Cocoa butter addictJujyMonkey: Clever tagline goes here
      6/22/16 5:02am

      Exactly what I was thinking. “Odd” is insisting on wearing mismatched socks every day or habitually putting the milk in the cabinet instead of the refrigerator. This is just fucking insane.

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    TheBurnersMyDestinationJE Reich
    6/21/16 10:40pm

    I am really hoping that five years was spent piling up rock-hard evidence against this guy, because that is a long time for someone who has been a suspect from the very beginning.

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      HuckleberryGinTheBurnersMyDestination
      6/22/16 12:18am

      Actually, that’s a relatively normal frame of time. It’s likely the prosecutor was refusing to file charges until investigators could produce x, y, and z. Unfortunately, it can often take years to gather everything needed to build a solid case. Most cold cases are not unsolved. Usually, detectives have a general idea of what happened but lack the evidence needed to prosecute a suspect. It will be interesting to see what newe evidence has come to light in the Cass case.

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    DanielaBambinaJE Reich
    6/22/16 1:33am

    Mookie the Wonder Corgi is here to help battle your existential crisis. At least, once he’s done napping

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      Cocoa butter addictDanielaBambina
      6/22/16 5:04am

      Aw. He almost makes me wish I were a dog person. :-)

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    ILikeThunderstormsJE Reich
    6/21/16 10:47pm

    WTF is wrong with people? WTF?

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      qdanielsJE Reich
      6/21/16 10:58pm

      I’ve been clicking around trying to find out what the evidence is that led to the arrest, but most of the articles at this point seem to be focusing on the fact that Noyes was arrested in, and made his initial court appearance via video hookup from, a mental health facility in which he’d been in since December 2015. Apparently he’d been found mentally incompetent to stand trial on some unrelated misdemeanor charges, and has been there since that time.

      It looks like there will be lots of mental capacity back-and-forth as the case proceeds. Blegh, this story is so stomach-churning. Celina Cass was eleven years old; wrapped in a blanket and submerged in the Connecticut River. Good god this is depressing.

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        tonypolarJE Reich
        6/21/16 10:34pm

        Finally. I wonder what changed for them over five years. He has been the suspect from the beginning.

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