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deadparrot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-29-06 10:45 PM
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'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.

The two met at a day-care center where Morales' sister worked with McClure, according to the magazine.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060130/ap_on_re_us/people_baby_jessica_marries
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yvr girl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-29-06 10:48 PM
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1. From what I see, Jessica runs from any publicity
I wish they'd leave her alone.
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FreedomAngel82 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-29-06 10:49 PM
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2. Right
If someone clearly wants to be left a lone they should leave them alone. One reason why I don't like the papparazi. Wheter on citizen's like this girl or any celebrity.
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RobertSeattle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-29-06 10:53 PM
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3. BTW- Anyone we can pin the accident on Tom Delay?
:evilgrin:
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Ignacio Upton Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-29-06 11:04 PM
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4. Does anyone still remember her?
Edited on Sun Jan-29-06 11:07 PM by Ignacio Upton
And I mean that in a good way, in the sense that she is not remembered by the general public as a sensationalist news story. I was born a month after she was rescued, so technically I can say that wasn't even alive yet when this happened (fetal stage of life aside.)
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HeeBGBz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-29-06 11:09 PM
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6. Yeah, it was a big thing back then
I remember watching when they pulled her out.
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sandnsea Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-30-06 12:30 AM
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14. Remember the PA miners?
It was like that, except a toddler in a well. It was really exciting and heart warming when they pulled her up, really was. Before the days of MWF distractions too. This really was a story people cared about I think.
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Ignacio Upton Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-30-06 01:46 AM
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15. I do remember the PA miners
Edited on Mon Jan-30-06 01:47 AM by Ignacio Upton
I also remember a flashback to that story during the Sago Tragedy. I agree that even if it is sensationalism, at least it ends in a decent way. However, I don't believe that Natalie Holloway or any otherwise-local news story should get as much or more attention then say, the War in Iraq or Katrina.
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sandnsea Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-30-06 02:06 AM
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16. I agree
The difference is that people get murdered and go missing every single day. Mine accidents and babies in wells aren't really your typical day's news. Although the mine accidents are quickly becoming routine, sadly.
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peekaloo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-29-06 11:07 PM
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5. That's sweet. I was rather hoping she and Timmy O'Toole would hit
it off.
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AngryAmish Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-29-06 11:11 PM
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I still have the single
"Sending My Love Down the Well."
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geomon666 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-29-06 11:10 PM
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7. Why is this news? n/t
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CatholicEdHead Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-29-06 11:11 PM
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8. She is 19 and he is 32?
That is quite an age difference.
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juliana24 Donating Member (209 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-29-06 11:39 PM
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10. Insecurity is to blame.
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sleipnir Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-30-06 12:23 AM
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13. It certainly breaks the trusty rule, "Half your age, plus 7"
By my math, she's a good 4 years too young for him.

What's odd is how pretty damn useful that rule is, but perhaps this will be the exception.
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Hissyspit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-29-06 11:22 PM
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9. The week they rescued, it was the same week that Iran-Contra broke
if I'm not mistaken.
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diamondsndust Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-29-06 11:48 PM
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11. I crack up every time I see that cartoon in your signature...
That is some of the funniest stuff I've seen in a long time! I love it!
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Hissyspit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-30-06 12:17 AM
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12. Oliphant
Great political cartoonist - one of the greatest. I think he just turned 70.
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