Brainstorming here...
Topic: -text message(s) sent from AJ's phone to Jennifer, her mother.
The message(s) very well could have been typed directly from AJ's fingertips with a tap to the send button.
The only reason anyone has thought otherwise is because her mother Jennifer said
The conversation, in my opinion, was kind of off. I cant be 100 percent sure I know that was my daughter I was texting. I know how she talks and I know the type of things she says.
And, other than hearing that one text stated that *AJ wasn't ready to come home yet*; we have no idea what the full context of
"the conversation" was.
Possible conversation (Mom's use of word conversation tells us that there was more than one text message going back & forth?)-
Mother wanting to know where daughter is, why she hasn't come home etc.
Daughter, a 1st year college student
who has experienced living away from home since going to Longwood; was in the role of independent young woman (age 18); exhibiting independent decision making while participating in "the text conversation"; possibly *standing her ground* about whatever decision(s) she was making during the evening to overnight conversation time period;
I could go on & on here...
Mother quite surprised that daughter is demonstrating this unwavering independence feels that her daughter is behaving "out of character"; wow, so out of character that Mother's
*Mom* brain is saying "wow, she's never acted like this before; wow, she's never said things like this to me before; wow, is this my daughter on the other end of this text conversation???; wait, someone must be putting her up to this; someone else is telling her what to say; ohhhhhh, snap! this can't be her, she would never...
Mother decides
THAT was
NOT my daughter
!!!!
But, it was. And, Mother knew it was.
Daughter sending clear messages that she's making the decisions during that period of time.
Mother just didn't want to recognize the difference in her daughter. The adaption to becoming more independent. Her daughter was actually a bit more grown up since that day last August when she'd left for her transition from high school girl to college girl/woman.
And, the media and the viewers and the readers and the family and the friends and EVERYONE grabbed onto what the Mother felt and said AND ran with it!
End of brainstorming
Ponder this with me?
[I have more thoughts on this and much more about this case in my brain, BUT I must tell the monkeys that are jumping around and chattering inside my head that it's time for B. E. D!!]
