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Married Man Keeps Gift From Ex-Girlfriend Unopened for 47 Years
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Posted on 01/02/2018 11:15:44 AM PST by nickcarraway

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To: nickcarraway

Read the story and got a pretty good idea why the babe broke up with this fruitloop.


61 posted on 01/02/2018 1:02:39 PM PST by TalBlack (It's hard to shoot people when they are shooting back at you...)
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To: CardCarryingMember.VastRightWC

Do you have a citation for that?


62 posted on 01/02/2018 1:03:45 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway
A year or so after I got married, I was rummaging through some boxes in the attic, when I ran into a bunch of letters my ex-girlfriend left me.

I immediately threw them away. I know something like that is poison to a relationship.

63 posted on 01/02/2018 1:22:07 PM PST by MuttTheHoople (Yes, Liberals, I question your patriotism)
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To: wally_bert
Great series.

I always thought the series should have ended with Stottlemeyer being Trudy's real killer. He could have been wracked with guilt all those years, and completely destroyed when Monk finally finds out.

They could even have planted clues over the years, that the great observer Monk ignored because he could not handle the psychic trauma of what they might indicate.

Now that would have been an ending!

64 posted on 01/02/2018 1:23:12 PM PST by Haiku Guy (ELIMINATE PERVERSE INCENTIVES)
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To: Haiku Guy

Why would he have killed Trudy?


65 posted on 01/02/2018 1:25:15 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

Going to be difficult to cash in that dinner for 2 at Howard Johnson’s certificate.


66 posted on 01/02/2018 1:30:52 PM PST by fungoking (Tis a pleasure to live in the 0zarks)
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To: nickcarraway

Oh, some kind of police scandal. He got mixed up with it, and they threatened his wife, or something.

That is why he always looked after Monk and advocated for him. The guilt.


67 posted on 01/02/2018 1:30:53 PM PST by Haiku Guy (ELIMINATE PERVERSE INCENTIVES)
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To: nickcarraway

Yeah...my wife would have either opened it or thrown it away (probably both) in year 1.

I have a box in the garage filled with my “old stuff.” Every time I drag it down from its shelf it gets culled a little. Mostly Boy Scout stuff now.


68 posted on 01/02/2018 1:32:47 PM PST by Vermont Lt (Burn. It. Down.)
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To: nickcarraway

There is a ritual to purging all of the ex’s stuff.


69 posted on 01/02/2018 1:33:05 PM PST by Fido969 (In!)
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To: nickcarraway

Trudy was about to expose the conspiracy, so she had to be silenced. Stottlemeyer got the job...


70 posted on 01/02/2018 1:33:54 PM PST by Haiku Guy (ELIMINATE PERVERSE INCENTIVES)
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To: fungoking

Maybe it is eight of his favorite albums on 8-Track Tape...


71 posted on 01/02/2018 1:35:13 PM PST by Haiku Guy (ELIMINATE PERVERSE INCENTIVES)
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To: unixfox

He was a smart guy. Well, I would have mailed her crap to her. I meant that I got rid of the pictures and gifts and all. I even changed my phone number and closed my last email account she contacted me on. I even still really liked her at the time, but there are certain things I wouldn’t forgive. I would forgive cheating, before I forgive someone who dumped me (without cause).


72 posted on 01/02/2018 1:45:49 PM PST by castlegreyskull
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To: nickcarraway

Like the FedEx package in the Tom Hanks Movie.


73 posted on 01/02/2018 1:49:50 PM PST by Kickass Conservative (Tweet softly, but carry a big stick.)
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To: Haiku Guy

But Stottlemeyer wound up married to Trudy, albeit a different Trudy.


74 posted on 01/02/2018 1:50:33 PM PST by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Gone but not forgiven.)
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To: reg45

All the more the tragedy.

It would have been legendary television. Instead, they introduced a character in the second-to-last episode to pin it on.

Wimps.


75 posted on 01/02/2018 1:53:54 PM PST by Haiku Guy (ELIMINATE PERVERSE INCENTIVES)
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To: nickcarraway
Sorry, no reference. I read it in the mid to late 90's in WSJ's paper edition. I think it was one of those "human interest" stories they ran on the lower half of the front page. As I recall, the murders happened in the Seattle area, and he was living with wife #2 in Idaho. As a father myself of two young children at the time, it broke my heart to read about the younger boy still wrapped in the bloody Snoopy/Peanuts-themed pillow & sheets upon which he died as he slept. This man was a monster, and I couldn't understand how he hadn't been caught committing other crimes later.

The article was about rental storage units being used by criminals for all kinds of things. I wouldn't be surprised if it came out in the year after the OKC bombing. It started with the story of two young men who bid on the unit's contents in a white elephant sale, where bidders aren't allowed a peek inside, and the only info given is how long someone's paid for the unit & the date of last visit. Since this one had been diligently paid for so long, they figured they'd get a good ROI, but were severely disappointed to find just a lot of junk & low value furnishings. Then they finally unrolled a suspiciously heavy rug buried under the biggest junk pile.....

76 posted on 01/02/2018 2:09:44 PM PST by CardCarryingMember.VastRightWC ("Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt" - Pr. Herbert Hoover)
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To: BRL
Most wives 1would have rightfully thrown it in the trash the first time it was placed under the tree.

They might not confess to trashing it. (No, honey, I have no idea where that old present is. Did you check the box with the lights?)

77 posted on 01/02/2018 2:32:34 PM PST by Gil4 (And the trees are all kept equal by hatchet, ax and saw)
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To: bar sin·is·ter

Ha!
Thanks for that.
:)


78 posted on 01/02/2018 3:03:48 PM PST by Verbosus (/* No Comment */)
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To: Haiku Guy

I like that concept.

Monk at least ended up resolved.

More often than not, I can relate to Adrian many days.


79 posted on 01/02/2018 3:18:33 PM PST by wally_bert (I didn't get where I am today by selling ice cream tasting of bookends, pumice stone & West Germany)
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To: left that other site

<y brother and I have been gifting the same fruitcake back and forth for 27 years. It still seems to be good.


80 posted on 01/02/2018 3:54:52 PM PST by cyclotic (Trump tweets are the only news source you can trust.)
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