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      <![CDATA[awww...that's cute.
        
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      <![CDATA[What?  I didn't do anything.
        
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      <![CDATA[Actually, the original wire story just said they were trying to escape the cold of Germany and go someplace warm - so they decided Africa.<br />
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Not a bad idea.
        
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      <![CDATA[Those kids are way more industrious than I was at 6.  What an underachiever I was...
        
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      <![CDATA[Aislinn, your story was cute. Were the Barbies lined up as witnesses?<br />
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Elenchos, wtf?
        
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      <![CDATA[Actually, a scandal originated in Marburg, Germany, because two five-year-olds (or thereabouts) at a local day care were having sex. The instructors knew about it and had informed the parents but didn't want to infringe on the kids' rights.<br />
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They found out what was going on when the little boy told people he just had to have it every day.
        
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      <![CDATA[@2  you didn't take your meds today
        
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    <author><![CDATA[spoiler alert]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[well that was about the cutest thing i ever read, only to have it ruined by your weird sexual implications.   geez.
        
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      <![CDATA[The lowest mortality rate for humans is at age 10.<br />
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The average age of death over 99 percent of our pre-history is age 19.<br />
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Therefore 10 is middle aged, biologically for us.<br />
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Those kids just wanted to spend their "good years" together...
        
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      <![CDATA[At the age of 8, I presided over my then-six-year old brother's marriage to our similarly-aged neighbor. I had previously had my mom write "the speech" (in sickness and in health, etc.) out on notecards so that my Barbies could be married, and I felt completely qualified to officiate a human union. They were in love, and I was positive they would remain in love forever. Of course, we moved away soon after, and he hasn't seen her since.<br />
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We held the ceremony in the backyard, which isn't quite as creative as running away to Africa. But I understand their sense of urgency.<br />
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I completely agree that referring to the children as "lovers" is kind of gross, though.
        
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      <![CDATA[Long distance information, give me Hanover Germany,<br />
Help me find the party trying to get in touch with me,<br />
We tried to go to Africa, but the law did not agree<br />
And tore apart our happy home in Hanover Germany.
        
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      <![CDATA[Why label them at all?  They're people.  Sure maybe in your isolated Capitol Hill ghetto they seem exotic and you want to call them names like "children" so you can categorize them, stuff them in a pigeon hole to save you the work of knowing them.  But out in the world, where we have a little diversity, we just call them people.  People, Lindy.  People of youth, among other traits worthy of respect, which maybe don't get noticed outside the narrowly circumscribed Capitol Hill artists' entourage community.<br />
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God.  It's so trying sometimes.
        
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      <![CDATA["Lovers" implies... being in love? Yeah, that gives me hives too.
        
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    <pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2009 11:44:05 -0800</pubDate> 
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