Recent content by Cosmictadpole

To give you a little more perspective from a person living in rural USA, I wanted to add that when I see someone carrying, even though it is legal and not unheard of, it raises my alarm bells a little, and I definitely take note.

It is not at all abnormal, but not everyone does. I live in a pretty rural area, and do not, nor do my family and most of my friends.

That would be ideal, and is probably what happens most of the time, but it is not always what happens. It is unfortunate that the woman didn't report her son. I was just trying to put myself in her shoes to understand why she didn't.

A thought I had is that for a mother to notify authorities about her black son could be a death sentence for him. She may have been too scared about what might happen to him to contact anyone.

Me too. And I wonder if she misses them.

I hope you are right. Depending on how long she was with the monkeys, though, she may not have had the appropriate amount of nurturing human interaction required in the very early child development windows to be able to function in a "normal", healthy way. However the monkeys may have been able...

As a mother of identical twins, I have learned that identical twins can look very different from each other, and be different sizes. Their size can be affected by twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome, in which one twin gets more than its fair share of the nutrients from the placenta and the other...

With a cooling off period in between... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_killer

Thank you for sharing this! I hadn't seen this story, though I'm sure it's been discussed here a lot. I try to skim everything as fast as I can, but it's hard to keep up.

The quote that you highlighted in red, which stated, "but they’ve seen the video and likely won’t be able to stop thinking about it. 'Imagine what that must be like, it’s generally and very likely will be one of the last things these ladies and gentleman see for the rest of their lives before...

Sorry, I guess this was a butt post. Will delete if I can figure out how. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Thank you for sharing this. Made me cry. Glad they made this beautiful tribute to the girls.

I have been thinking a lot about these girls and how the BG was able to somehow overpower both of them, even though at least one had her cell phone and the ability to record. I've been thinking about my own children and how I can protect them and arm them with the skills, tools and information...

This scares me so much too! I can't imagine leaving my sister or best friend, or even husband behind, unless I was certain that I could get help for them in some way. I have no idea how I will be able to convince my daughters to do the same.

Snipped for efficiency. I will delete if this has already been discussed, but is there any possibility that he had a small boat (rowboat or canoe maybe) that he could have transported them in? Depending on the direction the creek flows, that would have been a much easier way to get them from one...