I live in Toronto for a quite some time and it never occurred to me that there is a bus route north on Yonge. I always thought that only subway is available if you want to travel on TTC north of Eglinton. I guess Mariam would have to know that there was a bus going north, board that bus, get off at York Mills, walk up the street and jump. I just cannot see that happening.
What I am trying to say here: yes it is not hard to get to York Mills to someone who knows exactly where they are heading. Did Mariam have this kind of knowledge of city streets and how to get there.
Outcast I totally agree with you. I was just thinking outside the (my own) box for the moment and considering the suicide idea. I don't think Mariam committed suicide.
(Pace the recent poster who said there is no evidence against suicide there is massive evidence against it I think. There has to be things we don't know but are known here in Toronto o/w 1. why would Langer post the bail and do all that research on the Scribe page which may just be a taste for all we know. It just makes no sense unless more is known. 2. Why would a famous famous lawyer I talked to say he would take the case? Why would he come directly on the phone? I am trying to get a lawyer now for some real estate business and can't get them to call me back!! There is something they know (the eminent lawyer) through back channels).
Now to be honest I can't really say I have a clear sense of Mariam and what she would or not do. Obviously her family knew her best in fact I would think here in Canada her brother knew her best (?) actually that simple fact hadn't quite occured to me till this minute. Though it does seem they kept so closely in touch via phone with parents quite remarkable really.
Now looking at the slender video evidence of Mariam on the W5 show I was struck by the fact that she seemed less shy than unanimously she is o/w portrayed as being. There is that short clip where she is possibly in her room or a room in Tblisi someone I think the videographer says something like "don't go like that" to her - she walks towards the camera SO IT SEEMS TO ME BUT I DON'T KNOW pretty cockily.
Ditto in the airport footage she seems mildly bemused at the attention and this is probably going too far but even slightly superior to it. It is stange but she seems very confident to me. Yes there is the evidence by parents and the teachers who met her of her inordinate shyness.
I don't see the shy girl that everyone talks about. But they would know not me - but it leaves me feeling I don't understand Mariam that well (but why
would I?)
Her Mom is adamant that she had no money for bus travel was studious which seems to be true for sure and just would not take off for adventure or some bizarre suicide plan.
I don't know how much freedom they had in Georgia. The grandmother and the aunt on W5 seem absolutely great to me (again slender evidence) both very lovely and impressive.
The only thing I wonder about is their interest in theatre and music I think even seasons tickets of some type. With her friend two young girls would have got attention. In her sketchbook there is a drawing of a longer haired possibly artistic young man who SEEMS to me to me the young man in a family photo of some kind. Kind of dashing. Is he a relative? The kind of relative say a cousin of kind you could have a bit of a crush on? Quite a bit older than Mariam for sure. I still wonder about her relation to the poets and the famous highjacker who was killed - I left a link at some point above. This might have made her interesting to people any link like this. But maybe this is all off the mark.
Too much conjecture here I know. I remember on the thread earlier someone brought up the issue of her being gay cause of the rainbow belt. And perhaps because something about someone at the school that Outcast maybe it is ok to say you have a bad feeling about.
On the earlier thread someone wisely said Mariam was private so it is tough to get at anything like that one way or the other. She would probably be annoyed that we try or even are trying to understand her I don't know.
In a word I personally cannot say I know what Mariam would do or wouldn't do. It is POSSIBLE that she loved her parents wanted to please them played the role of the dutiful daughter best she could BUT had developed some other aspect to her personality in Georgia PURE CONJECTURE but possibly some contact with an older male. With artistic intelligent older men the line between lechery and love and delight in young people is a pretty fine one so I just don't know.
Again her family knew her well and probably would think everything I just wrote is implausible and absurd.
What is the point to this? Just saying my feeling is Mariam had a few more arrows in her quiver that we allow for. POSSIBLY a slightly more mysterious person than we know.
