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MADem

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10. Pops isn't out of the woods, either.

Reply to snagglepuss (Reply #9)

Thu Apr 5, 2012, 11:42 PM

Apr 2012

He was looking at divorce papers. Ya gotta wonder, there.

I have no idea how old "Pa" is, but he looks quite long in the tooth--like Saddam during Gulf One. Not a spring chicken. He's on disability, I've read.

Poor Shaima was only 32--with a 17 year old daughter and five kids. No wonder she wanted a break. She was a child bride (and I doubt she was wooed--she was told, and that was that) who was raising children when she was still a child.

The daughter probably had a good look at "Ma's" life and said "I don't want a thing to do with that!"

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