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dogbert
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katydid
Joined: 02 Feb 2003
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| I don't think I'll finish this before the bell rings, but so far, what an amazingly heartbreaking story. I feel terrible for Peter. |
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shakuhachi
Joined: 08 Feb 2003
Location: Sydney
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dogbert
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Thanks, I didn't realize that the damn registration page was coming up.
As katydid said, it is a sad story. I will check and see if it's gotten any coverage in the Korean media. |
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Shutterfly
Joined: 02 Sep 2004
Location: Seoul
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| Yup, I dont live in the states either...just a question..why on the registrration do they have you annual income as a mandatory field.? (may be a dumb question, but i just dont know) |
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dogbert
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I haven't checked it for the L.A. Times, but for many newspapers entering the word "cyberpunk" as both ID and password works.
I believe that it asks you for your income so that it can use this information to provide its advertisers. |
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schwa
Joined: 18 Jan 2003
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This link crashed my internet connection (IE) both times I tried. |
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Drakoi
Joined: 26 Sep 2003
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| "In adoption, kids go on with their lives," she said. |
Can you say....
BULLSHIIIIIITE?
Adoptees are generally delusional until they become both financially and emotionally independant from their adoptive parents.
Holt itl. really pisses me off. Bible waving baby snatchers. The only bastards in every adoption story are the agents, not the children. |
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dogbert
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| Posted: Thu Dec 09, 2004 6:01 am Post subject: |
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| "In adoption, kids go on with their lives," she said. |
Can you say....
BULLSHIIIIIITE?
Adoptees are generally delusional until they become both financially and emotionally independant from their adoptive parents.
Holt itl. really pisses me off. Bible waving baby snatchers. The only bastards in every adoption story are the agents, not the children. |
The article does not paint Holt in a good light at all.
Of course, the kicker is the adoptee's birth mother's gratuitous dislike of things American, despite the fact that she was screwed (literally) by Korea's patriarchal system. |
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Drakoi
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| Posted: Thu Dec 09, 2004 4:40 pm Post subject: |
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| dogbert wrote: |
| Drakoi wrote: |
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| "In adoption, kids go on with their lives," she said. |
Can you say....
BULLSHIIIIIITE?
Adoptees are generally delusional until they become both financially and emotionally independant from their adoptive parents.
Holt itl. really pisses me off. Bible waving baby snatchers. The only bastards in every adoption story are the agents, not the children. |
The article does not paint Holt in a good light at all.
Of course, the kicker is the adoptee's birth mother's gratuitous dislike of things American, despite the fact that she was screwed (literally) by Korea's patriarchal system. |
What about the adoptive family's complete lack of korean?!?!? Shouldn't that somehow preclude them from adopting a 8 year old who doesn't speak english?? |
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Tiberious aka Sparkles
Joined: 23 Jan 2003
Location: I'm one cool cat!
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The article fails to mention how mother and son communicated when they met. Did Peter learn Korean (doubtful)? Did his *beep* of a mother learn English (also doubtful)? Some mention should have been made that they had to communicate through interpreters.
I hope the guy gets the money he deserves. And I hope he doesn't give one cent (or won) to his selfish mother.
Sparkles*_* |
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dogbert
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The article fails to mention how mother and son communicated when they met. Did Peter learn Korean (doubtful)? Did his *beep* of a mother learn English (also doubtful)? Some mention should have been made that they had to communicate through interpreters.
I hope the guy gets the money he deserves. And I hope he doesn't give one cent (or won) to his selfish mother.
Sparkles*_* |
Interesting too was the sugar-coating of the mom's current occupation. |
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Drakoi
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| Posted: Thu Dec 09, 2004 9:45 pm Post subject: |
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| dogbert wrote: |
| Tiberious aka Sparkles wrote: |
The article fails to mention how mother and son communicated when they met. Did Peter learn Korean (doubtful)? Did his *beep* of a mother learn English (also doubtful)? Some mention should have been made that they had to communicate through interpreters.
I hope the guy gets the money he deserves. And I hope he doesn't give one cent (or won) to his selfish mother.
Sparkles*_* |
Interesting too was the sugar-coating of the mom's current occupation. |
what? she runs a whorehouse, people in nevada would be proud.
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chiaa
Joined: 23 Aug 2003
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Interesting story, but the ignorance about asia by the writer well got to me. A room salon a Korean version of a Japanese Geisha house? For a reporter, she should read a couple more books.
I hope the guy gets a load of money from his half-brothers and sisters. I mean, even though we don't have their side of the story, they could have easily given the child back to his biological mother. I will bet the only reason why they didn't is because they were afraid that the biological mother would try to get more money because of who the father is. |
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crazylemongirl
Joined: 23 Mar 2003
Location: almost there...
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| Posted: Thu Dec 09, 2004 11:14 pm Post subject: |
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| only bastards in every adoption story are the agents, not the children. |
clearly not the case in this story. The only one with no blame is story is the child, I think that the parents both birth and adopted let this kid down as well as the agency. |
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