I have waited a long time for this my little green friend.
1-4 numbered like the LLRN lol
1) hmmmm sounds seductive
2) Wasn't Doug Stein like really young? I was thinking BDI + young adult, perhaps a 3-way mutual friend, BR+JB
3) yeah, other than the 'sexual abuse' I wonder whether PR could reasonably rely on JR to keep quiet over the years.
4) I don't know what most 'normal' kids would do if asked by a friendly stranger at 6 y/o. The least JB needed to do was either unlock the door at an earlier time or give a stranger a house key, etc. JB differs from a lot of kids in that she interacted w/ lots of adult strangers as a beauty queen. Other parents could give very stern warnings not to talk to any adult strangers or open the door for any stranger.
There are a couple of stories of preteens finding love with like a 40 y/o on the internet, and meeting for sex.
1) Well, you can make up your mind at your leisure.
2) If memory serves, Doug Stine was 13-14 years old.
3) Mm. While I happen to subscribe to the sexual abuse theory (more on that later), it helps to keep something in mind: JR had been married once before. He cheated on wife #1 and got caught. She gave him the heave-ho. JR is a man of considerable ego (that's not an attack, per se; most successful businessmen are like that). For him to make such a serious error in judgment reflects very badly on him. In other words, for him to turn PR in, he would have to admit to himself and the world that he screwed up his first marriage only to marry a monster. (A monster in his mind.)
4) She didn't just interact with them, voynich. She flirted with them, to use PR's own words. (We know what THAT's a sign of, right?) But leaving that aside for a moment, yes, I can see how JB would be less inhibited.