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Diana
Chief Inspector
Username: Diana
Post Number: 798
Registered: 2-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, September 27, 2005 - 2:48 pm: | 
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I'm back home. The house is fine. We have electricity and water. God is good.
We jumped in the car and started running Thursday morning. Grocery stores were closed so I had to stock for our trip from the kitchen. For breakfast I believe we had breakfast bars. For lunch we had peanut butter and jelly. For dinner we had peanut butter and jelly at midnight before retiring to blankets on a high school gym floor (shelter). The room was occupied by @ 200 other snoring people.
When I woke up Friday morning and tried to stand I nearly fell over from weakness. Fortunately those kind people provided me with a breakfast and coffee and after that I felt much better.
I started thinking about Polly, Annie, Liz, Kathy, and Mary.
I now know what it is like to have your body screaming for sleep and no place to lay your head, to just have to keep moving.
I know what it is like to bed down on a cement floor in a room with 200 other people and be grateful you have even that. I understand why they went to the doss houses.
I know what it is like to be so hungry you almost can't stand up from weakness. No wonder he overcame them so easily.
The only element that wasn't there is that I am not an alcoholic. I did not have that craving on me.
I hope I don't sound like I feel sorry for myself. That isn't the point. We could not have set up an experiment where one of us would have volunteered to spend one day living like they lived. Nobody would have volunteered. Now I know a little bit of what it was like. I'm very thankful I don't have to live that way day after day. |
Dan Norder
Chief Inspector
Username: Dannorder
Post Number: 911
Registered: 4-2004
| | Posted on Tuesday, September 27, 2005 - 3:56 pm: |
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Diana,
I'm glad you are OK.
Good points all around. It seems it would be pretty easy to overpower these women... in fact from the descriptions of most of them, they probably were near toppling over all on their own as it was.
Dan Norder, Editor
Ripper Notes: The International Journal for Ripper Studies
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Helge Samuelsen
Inspector
Username: Helge
Post Number: 398
Registered: 4-2005
| | Posted on Tuesday, September 27, 2005 - 4:30 pm: |
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Diana,
Good to have you back, and to know you're all ok, and that the house and all is in one piece!
And thanks for sharing those experiences.
Helge
"If Spock were here, he'd say that I was an irrational, illlogical human being for going on a mission like this... Sounds like fun!" -- (Kirk - Generations)
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Lindsey Millar
Inspector
Username: Lindsey
Post Number: 476
Registered: 9-2004
| | Posted on Tuesday, September 27, 2005 - 6:34 pm: |
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Diana, Dear God, I thank Him that you're okay.
Lyn
"When a man grows tired of London, he grows tired of life" (or summat like that)
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Suzi Hanney
Assistant Commissioner
Username: Suzi
Post Number: 2995
Registered: 7-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, September 28, 2005 - 4:45 am: |
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Diana,
So glad youre OK and in one pice!!
All best
Suzi
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Glenn G. Lauritz Andersson
Assistant Commissioner
Username: Glenna
Post Number: 4066
Registered: 8-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, September 28, 2005 - 6:41 am: |
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Diana,
I am very pleased to hear that you are OK and that the house still stands.
All the best
G. Andersson, writer/historian
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Frank van Oploo
Chief Inspector
Username: Franko
Post Number: 772
Registered: 9-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, September 29, 2005 - 11:46 am: |
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Yes, Diana, very good to hear you're alright!
Frank
"There's gotta be a lot of reasons why I shouldn't shoot you, but right now I can't think of one."
- Clint Eastwood, in 'The Rookie' (1990)
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