Wanna feel old? "'Baby Jessica,' Now 19, Reportedly Marries"

"MIDLAND, Texas - "Baby Jessica," whose dramatic rescue from an abandoned Texas well was televised across the country 18 years ago, got married in a private ceremony, People magazine reported on its Web site.


Crews struggled for 58 hours to rescue Jessica McClure after she fell into an 8-inch-wide pipe in October 1987.

The celebrity magazine reported that McClure, now 19, married Daniel Morales, 32, at a rural church outside Midland on Saturday. A sign on the door instructed guests not to take pictures or video, the magazine said."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060130/ap_on_re_us/people_baby_jessica_marries






Yikes!

it's the last thing tonight.

'night, all.

but 19 and 32 seem like a big age difference. The groom is a year older than I am and I remember her as a baby on the news quite vividly.
Just seems a bit creepy.

Her father was 32.

At that age, it IS a huge difference. I didn't realize at the time that he was emotionally and socially immature - I thought he was worldly and sophisticated.

and her father was 35. There was a world of difference even between those two ages, though they are closer in some ways. I look back now and realize that he wanted someone younger that he could manipulate.
I'm 31 and there is no way I would date, nonetheless marry, a 19 year old. It just makes me think of the saying "Marry 'em young and train 'em up right-like a bird dog."
Creeps me out.

Remember her? Louise Brown? The first test tube baby? She'll be 28 this November.

Wow. Ok, that's weird.

:P

No fucking way that's gonna last.

I'm sorry dear, but you'd be better off putting yourself through college that this crap.

So much wrong with the players in it. I saw a lot of it first hand.
It says so much for greed and the human condition.
People all over the country donated millions to this family, Oprah was there at the hospital, Lionel Ritchie sent hundreds of stuffed animals, Clayton Williams gave the family a new home, etc.
The hospital (which is a county hospital) allegedly comped the bill so the family got to keep all of the money.
Physician's that wouldn't have given this child the time of day before this happened swarmed to the spotlight. (I had to get letters of recommendation from my former pediatrician in order for my kids to be considered for one of these docs. We were "accepted" after a lengthy application process and I politely declined their services after this mess.)
The Candlelighters (families of pediatric cancer patients in the Midland area) approached the family and asked if they would consider making a donation to their fund because they had several indigent families with pressing needs. The parents said absolutely not--it was their money and the people wanted THEM to have it. So they bought new cars and all kinds of stuff. But they volunteered to donate the stuffed animals to children's charities--then reneged on that too.
The man holding Jessica committed suicide when he saw the pictures of the dead baby being carried during the OKC bombing.
Of course it isn't this child's fault and I hope she is happy.