<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18690846</id><updated>2012-02-01T09:32:22.168-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Seven At A Time With More In The Attic!!!</title><subtitle type='html'>What's this!?!___Very simple:___I read something here that I want to share, so I blog it!___Only seven displayed at a time, but (not to worry) the rest are in the attic!!!___One more thing:___If you're in a shopping mood, start your spree here, because it will be good for both you and me! :-)</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sevenplusattic.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18690846/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sevenplusattic.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Ainsley_Jo_Phillips</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='26' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_VZVA0iOAM9M/Snl2Xe6x4rI/AAAAAAAAASw/mALQhcdclj8/S220/Kopper+Kettle+In+Shades+Of+Purple.jpg'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>14</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18690846.post-114161378852905205</id><published>2006-03-05T21:56:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-03-06T00:35:24.483-05:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;&lt;font face=Helvetica color=#0000ff size=3&gt;If you're reading this anywhere right now, it can only mean one thing:&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font face="Courier New" color=#0000ff size=3&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p align=center&gt;&lt;font face="Courier New" color=#0000ff size=3&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;font face="Courier New" color=#0000ff size=3&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://ainsleyjophillips.ws/" target=_blank&gt;&lt;font face="Courier New" color=#0000ff size=3&gt;&lt;strong&gt;AJ's Absolutely Delicious Website&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p align=center&gt;&lt;font face=Helvetica color=#0000ff size=3&gt;is&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p align=center&gt;&lt;font face=Helvetica color=#0000ff size=3&gt;now open-to-the-public&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p align=center&gt;&lt;font face=Helvetica color=#0000ff size=3&gt;!!!&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p align=left&gt;&lt;font color=#0000ff size=3&gt;What this means is that you will, hopefully, be very anxious to check it out.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p align=left&gt;&lt;font color=#0000ff size=3&gt;If you see this, it means that everything on the website, itself, has been (for the near future, anyway) completed to the satisfaction of yours truly, and all that's needed now is to just add visitors that will, hopefully, sign my guestbook (even though it isn't required).&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p align=left&gt;&lt;font color=#0000ff size=3&gt;My message to people visiting is this:&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p align=left&gt;&lt;font color=#0000ff size=3&gt;Just make yourselves at home and check out whatever you might find interesting.&amp;nbsp; With very few exceptions, all links make their destinations open into new windows, meaning that you don't have to even leave the website completely behind in order to take side-trips.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p align=left&gt;&lt;font color=#0000ff size=3&gt;About those destinations...some will already be leading to places that are already going and active.&amp;nbsp; Others will lead to places that are either relatively-new or else absolutely brand-new and not yet developed.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p align=left&gt;&lt;font color=#0000ff size=3&gt;If you were to come back to every last one of those places in anything from a day or so to a week, you would see a lot of exciting changes there&lt;font face=Helvetica&gt;.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p align=left&gt;&lt;font color=#0000ff size=3&gt;In short, what I'm offering as of today (March 5, 2006) is a completely built website, some exciting and completed destinations, and the chance to watch construction work going on.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p align=left&gt;&lt;font color=#0000ff size=3&gt;That's all for now, so enjoy the journey...&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/18690846-114161378852905205?l=sevenplusattic.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sevenplusattic.blogspot.com/feeds/114161378852905205/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=18690846&amp;postID=114161378852905205' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18690846/posts/default/114161378852905205'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18690846/posts/default/114161378852905205'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sevenplusattic.blogspot.com/2006/03/if-youre-reading-this-anywhere-right.html' title=''/><author><name>Ainsley_Jo_Phillips</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='26' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_VZVA0iOAM9M/Snl2Xe6x4rI/AAAAAAAAASw/mALQhcdclj8/S220/Kopper+Kettle+In+Shades+Of+Purple.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18690846.post-114137709015920089</id><published>2006-03-03T04:10:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-03-03T04:52:34.173-05:00</updated><title type='text'>!</title><content type='html'>If you happened to be hanging around, you might be noticing a lot of changes going on in my neck of the woods.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;New blogs are starting to be developed in different ways.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Old blogs are being promoted more (as in being added to Weblogs.com right along with the newer ones).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Are you becoming curious?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you are, I'm going to enlighten you some...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;At this time, I'm building a website that's state-of-the-art (that is, as state-of-the-art as it can be coming from someone who began using The Internet back in 1998 when almost 46 years old--anyway, I'm quite proud of it!), and I'm hooking up various blogs to it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'm being very thorough when it comes to building it, so I can't tell you just when it will be done, but I'm hoping that it will be done before the first of next week, and the sooner the better.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When my website opens, I'll be making another announcement here, so be watching for it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the meantime--when you have the time and want to--enjoy watching the construction going on...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/18690846-114137709015920089?l=sevenplusattic.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sevenplusattic.blogspot.com/feeds/114137709015920089/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=18690846&amp;postID=114137709015920089' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18690846/posts/default/114137709015920089'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18690846/posts/default/114137709015920089'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sevenplusattic.blogspot.com/2006/03/blog-post.html' title='!'/><author><name>Ainsley_Jo_Phillips</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='26' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_VZVA0iOAM9M/Snl2Xe6x4rI/AAAAAAAAASw/mALQhcdclj8/S220/Kopper+Kettle+In+Shades+Of+Purple.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18690846.post-113817785067034704</id><published>2006-01-25T03:30:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-01-25T03:30:50.690-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Hiatus Announcement...</title><content type='html'>On a temporary hiatus to play catch-up elsewhere.  Will return to this blog by or before Valentine's Day.  Stay tuned--and, in the meantime, read what's already been posted...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/18690846-113817785067034704?l=sevenplusattic.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sevenplusattic.blogspot.com/feeds/113817785067034704/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=18690846&amp;postID=113817785067034704' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18690846/posts/default/113817785067034704'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18690846/posts/default/113817785067034704'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sevenplusattic.blogspot.com/2006/01/hiatus-announcement.html' title='Hiatus Announcement...'/><author><name>Ainsley_Jo_Phillips</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='26' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_VZVA0iOAM9M/Snl2Xe6x4rI/AAAAAAAAASw/mALQhcdclj8/S220/Kopper+Kettle+In+Shades+Of+Purple.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18690846.post-113465457778166286</id><published>2005-12-15T08:49:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-12-15T08:49:37.800-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Epiphany in Baltimore: Kicked in the gut</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://epiphanyinbaltimore.blogspot.com/2005/12/kicked-in-gut.html" target="blank"&gt;Epiphany in Baltimore: Kicked in the gut&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Jesus said, "Blessed are the peacemakers..." and this blogger (judging from this one entry) seems to be one of them!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/18690846-113465457778166286?l=sevenplusattic.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sevenplusattic.blogspot.com/feeds/113465457778166286/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=18690846&amp;postID=113465457778166286' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18690846/posts/default/113465457778166286'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18690846/posts/default/113465457778166286'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sevenplusattic.blogspot.com/2005/12/epiphany-in-baltimore-kicked-in-gut.html' title='Epiphany in Baltimore: Kicked in the gut'/><author><name>Ainsley_Jo_Phillips</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='26' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_VZVA0iOAM9M/Snl2Xe6x4rI/AAAAAAAAASw/mALQhcdclj8/S220/Kopper+Kettle+In+Shades+Of+Purple.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18690846.post-113448646444662322</id><published>2005-12-13T10:07:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-12-13T10:10:57.326-05:00</updated><title type='text'>The Suburban Ecstasies: What Death Penalty Advocates Want...</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://sethabramson.blogspot.com/2005/12/what-death-penalty-advocates-want.html" target="blank"&gt;The Suburban Ecstasies: What Death Penalty Advocates Want...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is one of the best--if not &lt;strong&gt;THE&lt;/strong&gt; best--anti-death-penalty essays I've ever read!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/18690846-113448646444662322?l=sevenplusattic.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sevenplusattic.blogspot.com/feeds/113448646444662322/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=18690846&amp;postID=113448646444662322' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18690846/posts/default/113448646444662322'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18690846/posts/default/113448646444662322'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sevenplusattic.blogspot.com/2005/12/suburban-ecstasies-what-death-penalty.html' title='The Suburban Ecstasies: What Death Penalty Advocates Want...'/><author><name>Ainsley_Jo_Phillips</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='26' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_VZVA0iOAM9M/Snl2Xe6x4rI/AAAAAAAAASw/mALQhcdclj8/S220/Kopper+Kettle+In+Shades+Of+Purple.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18690846.post-113236617516705756</id><published>2005-11-18T21:08:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-11-18T21:11:12.586-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Time To Defragment...</title><content type='html'>My computer is w---a---y overdue for a defragmenting, and I can tell this by the sluggish, balky way it's been acting--as well as following orders I didn't give and not following orders I've given.  And everything being so sl&lt;em&gt;oooooo&lt;/em&gt;w.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Will be returning here to post some more when it's finished.  In the meantime, read what's already up.  You can find it all by going to the archives...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/18690846-113236617516705756?l=sevenplusattic.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sevenplusattic.blogspot.com/feeds/113236617516705756/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=18690846&amp;postID=113236617516705756' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18690846/posts/default/113236617516705756'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18690846/posts/default/113236617516705756'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sevenplusattic.blogspot.com/2005/11/time-to-defragment.html' title='Time To Defragment...'/><author><name>Ainsley_Jo_Phillips</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='26' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_VZVA0iOAM9M/Snl2Xe6x4rI/AAAAAAAAASw/mALQhcdclj8/S220/Kopper+Kettle+In+Shades+Of+Purple.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18690846.post-113224792082177887</id><published>2005-11-17T12:18:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-11-17T12:20:12.986-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Reflections on Life in Benin</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://rkvaughn.blogspot.com/" target="blank"&gt;Reflections on Life in Benin&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is a neat look into the everyday life of a missionary family who is "planting" churches.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lots of wonderful pictures &amp; news--and you won't find any "long-faced," "sackcloth &amp; ashes" religion here!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/18690846-113224792082177887?l=sevenplusattic.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sevenplusattic.blogspot.com/feeds/113224792082177887/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=18690846&amp;postID=113224792082177887' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18690846/posts/default/113224792082177887'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18690846/posts/default/113224792082177887'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sevenplusattic.blogspot.com/2005/11/reflections-on-life-in-benin.html' title='Reflections on Life in Benin'/><author><name>Ainsley_Jo_Phillips</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='26' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_VZVA0iOAM9M/Snl2Xe6x4rI/AAAAAAAAASw/mALQhcdclj8/S220/Kopper+Kettle+In+Shades+Of+Purple.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18690846.post-113191250182103009</id><published>2005-11-13T15:08:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-11-13T15:08:21.830-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Wonderful Idea For A TV Station!!!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://wayneism.blogspot.com/2005/08/tv-channel-will-include-disabled.html" target="blank"&gt;Wayne's blog: TV Channel Will Include Disabled&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I hope that my local cable service carries this one!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/18690846-113191250182103009?l=sevenplusattic.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sevenplusattic.blogspot.com/feeds/113191250182103009/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=18690846&amp;postID=113191250182103009' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18690846/posts/default/113191250182103009'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18690846/posts/default/113191250182103009'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sevenplusattic.blogspot.com/2005/11/wonderful-idea-for-tv-station.html' title='Wonderful Idea For A TV Station!!!'/><author><name>Ainsley_Jo_Phillips</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='26' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_VZVA0iOAM9M/Snl2Xe6x4rI/AAAAAAAAASw/mALQhcdclj8/S220/Kopper+Kettle+In+Shades+Of+Purple.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18690846.post-113141246840032834</id><published>2005-11-07T20:14:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-11-07T20:14:28.403-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Jenelle's Journey</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://jenellesjourney.blogspot.com/" target="blank"&gt;Jenelle's Journey&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;From what I've seen and read of this blog, this looks like a wonderful, heart-warming, and educational place to go when looking for information about epilepsy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Did you know that November is Epilepsy Awareness Month?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I didn't realize that until reading it here, but I'm definitely aware of this condition having several friends who have dealt with this since childhood, as well as having my dad to have a temporary form of it after having a viral infection of the brain back in 1997 and one of my cousins to have had an "abnormal brainwave" after hitting her head on the dashboard of the family car when she was ten or eleven--though being treated for it stopped it from developing into full-blown epilepsy.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When I was almost 21, I was afraid that I was starting to develop it, but whatever was going on never developed into a full-blown seizure.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I will be discussing this in more detail in a book soon to come out.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/18690846-113141246840032834?l=sevenplusattic.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sevenplusattic.blogspot.com/feeds/113141246840032834/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=18690846&amp;postID=113141246840032834' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18690846/posts/default/113141246840032834'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/18690846/posts/default/113141246840032834'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sevenplusattic.blogspot.com/2005/11/jenelles-journey.html' title='Jenelle&apos;s Journey'/><author><name>Ainsley_Jo_Phillips</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='26' src='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_VZVA0iOAM9M/Snl2Xe6x4rI/AAAAAAAAASw/mALQhcdclj8/S220/Kopper+Kettle+In+Shades+Of+Purple.jpg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18690846.post-113140012578155409</id><published>2005-11-07T16:48:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-11-07T16:51:54.290-05:00</updated><title type='text'>We The People: Responsible for Tomorrow: Jennifer Wilbanks for President</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://usthepeople.blogspot.com/2005/08/jennifer-wilbanks-for-president.html" target="blank"&gt;We The People: Responsible for Tomorrow: Jennifer Wilbanks for President&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here's something I wrote about the case of &lt;strong&gt;Jennifer Wilbanks&lt;/strong&gt; in a comment section.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Although my picture of &lt;strong&gt;President Bush&lt;/strong&gt; is considerably more positive than that of the author of the piece this link will take you to, I definitely agree with him about &lt;strong&gt;Jennifer Wilbanks&lt;/strong&gt; and how she should be seen.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now, here's the comment...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Empress Juju--&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There are only two things I could say about Jennifer that would say she was doing something wrong.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;#1:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One thing was in how she went about postponing her wedding until she could decide what she wanted.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The most decent way to have done that would have been to have gone to her fiance and told him that she was having second thoughts--or, if unable to do that, to have gone to someone else to talk it over and help her to figure out how to break this to him.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;However, the tragic truth was that--among all of those people--she didn't believe that she could find a one of them who would be understanding of what was going on with her (and she could barely understand it, herself).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Which brings us to...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;#2:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When she learned what a big deal her departure had caused, she felt too much shame to tell the real story, so she made up a story--meant to be related only to her family and fiance--about being kidnapped and raped.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;She had no idea that they were going to connect her with the area police to tell her story to them.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And &lt;strong&gt;THAT&lt;/strong&gt; is how what she'd done went to being a possible felony.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Changing your mind about getting married isn't a felony--it's not even a misdemeanor--and what she did was much better than continuing to live a lie by entering a marriage that she was very unsure of.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What if she had done so and, eventually, brought children into the picture?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Eventually, she might have had a nervous breakdown when she could no longer keep up the front, and here she would be with a husband and family--which would either be keeping her "locked into" a life that made her miserable or else would have her playing the heavy and deciding on divorce.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the long-run, everybody is better off.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What concerns me more than what she did is that society makes it so difficult for someone like Jennifer to have been able to be more honest with everybody--including herself--at an earlier date.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Perhaps, she could have told her fiance (likely, even before he became her fiance) that he was a good person and deserved someone special, but that she didn't love him in that way.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I could say even more about this, but I think I'll quit for now...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/18690846-113140012578155409?l=sevenplusattic.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sevenplusattic.blogspot.com/feeds/113140012578155409/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=18690846&amp;postID=113140012578155409' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' 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