I've read the last portion of this series many times, and it makes me smile. It's real, and I thoroughly enjoy it.
--njk
04/19 |
P.S. I went back to the first article in the series. You didn't know how this was going to end when you started, did you? Makes it all the more fun.
--REM
01/11 |
A lovely ending, and yes, incredibly wonderful things come out of nowhere from the smallest of choices or coincidences, or even from what seem like bad things at the moment. Love came to me, also, from a person I didn't expect it from or intended to look for it with. As for the mugger -- who knows what his record was. But in some respects, he got off easy. If one of Sarah's party had a gun, he or she would have had the right to shoot this piece of crap dead (and I don't care what his race is -- aremed robbers are pieces of crap, period). If the case had gone to trial, their relationship arguably could have been a subject of cross examination, but it would not "disqualify" either of them from testifying.
--REM
01/11 |
A lovely addition.
--EF
01/07 |
Hi Sarah. I'm glad you met a nice guy. I hope it works out for you. But let's get real... You don't really know him very well. You are not yet truly in love. Relax, take it slowly, maybe you two are compatible and will live happily ever after. But you don't know that yet. Also, it seems quite unprofessional of your boyfriend to get involved with a participant in a current case. (Even if you did not directly discuss the case.) Isn't this a violation of his ethical guidelines?
--cc
01/07 |
great article, very intense. Nathan
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01/07 |
I double-checked, and the mugger is described as black in only one place in the article. Just delete the word in that one spot, and read it again, not caring about the race of the mugger, and see if you like it better. I'm personally grateful that a) Justice prevailed, at least eventually, and b) Sarah found someone to make her cry for different reasons. However, I still am left not knowing how you get on your return flight home if someone steals your ID in the middle of the trip.
--JCF
01/06 |
Ouch, these comments are cruel! Please tell me why somebody who mugged the writer deserves to be the subject of her dispassionate treatise on class and race? Under the circumstances, I think the writer has more right to feel this was a fair sentence as you do to think it's excessive. If someone mugged my wife, I'd want him locked up AND kicked in the balls as well, but that's just me.
Sarah, as someone who is 12 years into a sweet, loving, and happy marriage with someone I met and fell in love with online, may your days be filled with happiness and all the best kinds of tears. Thanks for sharing your story.
--JPP
01/06 |
Thank you for your story; it made me happy - but also melancholy - which I like. jd02
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01/04 |
I agree with you, RAZA. This column has always felt self indulgent to me, but this last one goes too far. He gets 15 years, she gets cuddles and sympathy?! and this is somehow supposed to prove that something great can come out of something terrible?! I'm just amazed at the level of self indulgence here.
--JA
01/04 |
thank you i cant say more right now but my heart feels i am unable to finish right now i just hope and pray
to tell you the truth am not sure how to ue the comp so well lol not sure how to get basck to finish your story but thank you for having me hope
--rg
01/03 |
Is anyone else disturbed by the "weepy-white-woman-protected-by-John-Law-from-the-scary-Black-guy" narrative going on in this story? He got FIFTEEN YEARS for mugging her in post-Katrina New Orleans, but sometimes bad things like that can lead to good stuff like cuddling in bed and being consoled about your cat possibly dying at some point in the future.
I'm not trying to say that she doesn't deserve love and joy... but damn. I propose another column entitled "Crying in Restaurants about Uncritical Reflections on Race and Class."
--RAZA
01/03 |
Yeah, Sarah Hepola. Your story made me cry. I am happy for your success. Heather Frankie
--HF
01/03 |
I would have thought with the salon gig this would have been finally over? Oh well. It is sub headlined the end.
--XLS
01/02 |
Sarah, I've been a long time reader (originally of your blog, then of your writings on The Morning News, and at Nerve). I just wanted to say that I'm glad you've found what sounds to be a great guy. I hope it works out, and I trust that it will.
--David
--DN
01/02 |
Sarah - You made me cry in a not bad kind of way. Here's to caring about and loving enough to cry about it. Happy 2008 to you.
--Ken
01/02 |
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