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Here's another blurb:

St Louis Post-Dispatch (MO), April 11, 1997 p02A
PEOPLE. (News)(People Column)

Quick: Which Democratic politician from Massachusetts is feeling heat from his ex-wife over his marriage annulment petition?

Rep. Joseph Kennedy is not alone. Sen. JOHN KERRY has applied to the Archdiocese of Washington for an annulment of his marriage to Julia Thorne. (They split in 1988; Kerry later remarried.)

Thorne has written the archdiocese opposing Kerry's petition; she says it demeans their relationship and their two children. And she has written a blurb for "Shattered Faith," in which Sheila Rauch Kennedy blasts the church's annulment policy.

And yet another blurb:

The Boston Herald, May 14, 1997 p008
Inside Track. Gayle Fee; Laura Raposa.

Hydrant removal gets Heinz out of parking pickle

We don't know about you, but the Track is going to rest easier tonight knowing that Sen. John Kerry and his wife, Teresa Heinz, will soon be able to park the Picklemobile right smack in front of their door at 19 Louisburg Square.

Because that pesky fire hydrant - which fueled a flurry of bad press for the ketchup heiress last year when she was bagged blocking it with her white Jeep Cherokee - is being relocated around the corner to Pinckney Street.

The Boston Fire Department confirmed yesterday that a request for the hydrant relocation came in from the Heinz-Kerrys less than a week ago.

"The chief went up there himself and didn't see any problem with moving it," said a BFD spokesman.

Talk about prompt service! Quick as you could say "the slooooooow ketchup," the jaw-clenching racket of jackhammers began blasting through Louisburg Square.

Of course Mrs. Heinz was not in residence at the time.

Kerry's people say the senator and the missus figured that the city could easily move the black-and-white hydrant around the corner since the sewer rats were in the neighborhood fixing a hinky sewer connection across the street on Pinckney.

And besides, the hydrant - which caused such painful parking problems for Teresa's HJ 57 - is such an eyesore!

No word on the ketchup queen's take on the dozen orange-and-white construction barrels lined up and down Pinckney.

And - may we add - taking up precious parking spaces!

"Now they'll be able to park directly in front of the door without complaints from neighbors," sniffed one fired-up Square-ite.

Kerry's spokesman, Michael Meehan, told the Track the removal of the funky-looking fireplug - not to mention the earlier relocation of a grating Boston Edison grate - would improve the $3 million manse's "pictorial environment."

"At least the photos will look better," he joked.

We relish the thought!

(Julia) "Thorne has written the archdiocese opposing Kerry's petition; she says it demeans their relationship and their two children.--"

I have always wondered when petitioning and receiving an annulment of marriage, with children involved, does the church then annul the birth of the children. Are the children then considered against the law, illegal, and born out of wedlock?

When I see Kerry's daughter tooting the mike for her ?dad? I've wondered what goes thru her mind. For instance -- my dad so readily agreed to denounce his marriage to my mom, which involved me, ***what would it take to denounce his Country (oops he did that already) ****to risk the lives of the soldiers he would sent into harms way (oops he did that already,-- McCain can testify to that and I bet today's soldiers will also).

Well anyway, make you wonder, huh!!! If you are willing to denounce the most private and intimate part of your live, your children, what else you would do!!