karlrschneider
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Sat Sep-09-06 09:20 PM
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I'm wondering (and worried) about Riverbend. Has anybody heard |
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anything lately? Last blog was August 5.
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annabanana
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Sat Sep-09-06 09:27 PM
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I hope she gets a few "electric minutes" to blog a few words for us.
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Viva_La_Revolution
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Sat Sep-09-06 09:30 PM
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2. It was over a month between her last two posts... |
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they get farther and farther apart as things there get worse.
I'm worried about her too. :(
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Sat Sep-09-06 09:32 PM
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3. How weird. I was thinking about her just this morning. |
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Man, I hope nothing untoward has happened.
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Sat Sep-09-06 09:33 PM
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4. I've seen her go as long as a month... |
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before...but that means nothing. Hopefully you'll hear something soon. :hi:
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Sat Sep-09-06 09:34 PM
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5. I'm hoping maybe her family just decided to get out. |
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Who knows? She's gone long periods without blogging before. I know I'd be too depressed to post much were I in her situation. There's so many possible reasons for her online silence -- succumbing to depression, no electricity, no internet access, fear of discovery, escaping Iraq...
All we can do is hope that she's safe -- and maybe that someone in the online world would eventually be able to let us know of her fate if something bad has happened to her. :-(
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Sat Sep-09-06 09:36 PM
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6. I got the feeling that her time in Iraq is nearing its end. |
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Sat Sep-09-06 09:52 PM
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8. I got that impression too, from her last entry. |
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Sat Sep-09-06 11:43 PM
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10. Let's hope she is happy, sitting in a cafe in |
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Amsterdam, reading a book, drinking tea, eating rolls, and enjoying being with friends and family, safe.
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Sat Sep-09-06 09:38 PM
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7. Yes...perhaps she and her family finally had enough and went |
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elsewhere. Hope they're all okay in any case.
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Sat Sep-09-06 09:53 PM
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9. From her last posts, it seemed to me that her family might very well |
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decide to leave Iraq. Just reading between the lines, it seemed like they might be close to "having enough".
I cannot imagine what her life has been like these past 3 years. She has given us all such a wonderful, precious gift of herself. Her posts often brought me to tears -- as well as seething anger that such a lovely intelligent soul was being subjected to so much awfulness.
She is like an Anne Frank of Iraq -- but I hope with all my heart that her ultimate fate is a happier one.
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Sat Sep-09-06 11:53 PM
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Having read her blog for so long, the more recent ones are chilling. She puts a human face on all the grim statistics we read in the news, and a greater purpose behind my own dissent.
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