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09-16-2006, 06:29 PM
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Dying Wish: Is this sweet or morbid?
I found this article about a terminally ill 17 year old who, through the Make-a-Wish Foundation, is realizing her dream of having a fancy wedding...
http://www.cleveland.com/lake/plaind...510.xml&coll=2
I feel so horrible because I want to be able to say, "That's so sweet!" but to tell you the truth, reading the article gave me the heebie jeebies.
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09-16-2006, 06:54 PM
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I think it's a really sweet idea.
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09-16-2006, 07:34 PM
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How nice of them to grant this dying girl's wish, it brought tears to my eyes.
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09-16-2006, 07:42 PM
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Why am I having flashbacks of "A Walk to Remember"?
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09-16-2006, 07:51 PM
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Why Morbid?
A dying child and The Wish Foundation give people good times before they Die!
Yes Die!
Not sure that would be mine at all for sure!
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09-16-2006, 08:19 PM
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Originally Posted by AlphaFrog
Why am I having flashbacks of "A Walk to Remember"?
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Exactly what I was thinking.
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09-16-2006, 08:31 PM
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Originally Posted by TrueBlueKappa
Exactly what I was thinking.
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09-17-2006, 10:12 AM
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Why am I having flashbacks of "A Walk to Remember"?
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because that movie was like this
how sad/sweet
kind of strange, but so is everything relating to the heart
i'm glad she got her wish, I hope she enjoyed her wedding night. 
You know the dude will have strange memories forever though, but good for him, its good he's doing/did this.
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09-21-2006, 10:10 PM
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Why am I having flashbacks of "A Walk to Remember"?
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i saw that movie...but i didn't.....refresh my memory?
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09-22-2006, 07:18 AM
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Originally Posted by starang21
i saw that movie...but i didn't.....refresh my memory?
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It's a Mandy Moore movie, where this guy is a big pain in the ass jerk, and then he gets caught doing something wrong and is "sentenced" to tutoring underprivileged kids, and to the Drama club (WTF the drama club??, oh well), both programs that of course, Mandy Moore is a part of. So they fall in love and then she tells him she has terminal cancer so they get married and she dies. The End.
ETA: That's some BS too about the honeymoon. I remember the episode of "Dinosaurs" where they talk about "The Mating Dance" that "should only be done in the confines of a loving, monogamous relationship, preferably marriage". If they're having a "commitment ceremony" they're obviously in a monogamous relationship (probably moreso then some people who are actually MARRIED), and she's going to die anyway, what's the difference if they actually get to have sex??? Come on mom...let her be a teen. Unless the guy is "saving himself" for his "real wife" later...in which case, he probably shouldn't have gone through with the wedding in the first place.
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09-22-2006, 08:22 AM
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i saw that movie...but i didn't.....refresh my memory?
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Guess it was more like a Walk You Didn't Remember 
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09-16-2006, 08:55 PM
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That article about broke my heart. I think it's sweet.
Since her mother is a single mother, this will be a great memory for her too, as that is one of the huge regrets a mother has when they lose a daughter or a son, that they never get to see them married or have a child.
Even though she won't really be married, considering the insurance issue, they have come up with a great alternative.
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Originally Posted by KillarneyRose
I found this article about a terminally ill 17 year old who, through the Make-a-Wish Foundation, is realizing her dream of having a fancy wedding...
http://www.cleveland.com/lake/plaind...510.xml&coll=2
I feel so horrible because I want to be able to say, "That's so sweet!" but to tell you the truth, reading the article gave me the heebie jeebies. |
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09-17-2006, 01:40 AM
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heebie jeebies.
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I'm crackin' up 'cuz you sed "heebie jeebies" about a wedding...
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09-17-2006, 04:53 AM
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I wonder . . . if a boy made a wish to have sex with a woman before he died, would the Foundation send him to Nevada? Well why not?
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