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My boss plays golf with several dentists so we heard about this before the victim was identified in the local papers. The dentist for my family and most of my coworkers is Brian Palank, Kathy Sharp's employer. The Roll family takes #5 daughter on vacation to the Outer Banks with them each year. Brian just put a cap on for me last month, with Kathy assisting. The man who took her hostage, and has been arraigned on murder charges, just tried what I could call suicide by cop.
My own mother was shot in the face by my step-father on her 59th birthday. The intervention of Anne Arundel Mall shoppers put an end to the pistol whipping and saved her life. He was sentenced to fifteen years in the Maryland prison system and released after eight. Everyday three women in the United states die at the hands of their partner.
At the age of 68 the mother of our pastoral assistant survived a rape and beating in her home in Philadelphia. I found strength from my friendship with Sister that words cannot express, but it took us years to talk about the common event in our lives that had been the invisible part of our bond. Everyday six hundred women in the United states are sexually assaulted.
We like to lecture other countries about the position of women in their society. Since Kathy Sharp graduated from high school we have seen the wives and female children of three Presidents treated as targets in the war of politics. Violence against women was a tactic of war used in the Balkans, Congo, Rwanda, and Darfur.
Donald Berkley Surber stands accused of destroying part of my community.
Soon we will all realize that the Invisible Pink Unicorn is about love, and she wants us to make heaven right here on earth.
I think of that Jeebus fellow as a feminist. Pray for the suffering, bleeding human family.
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