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07-01-2005, 02:20 AM
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Bride calls off wedding, throws party for the homeless
Wednesday, June 29, 2005
Bride calls off wedding, throws party for the homeless THE ASSOCIATED PRESS EVERETT, Wash. -- A young woman decided to call off her wedding 12 days before the event and her parents knew they'd be stuck with the bill, so they decided to have a party anyway and invited the homeless. Residents of the Interfaith Family Shelter, housed in a former convent across from Our Lady of Perpetual Help Catholic Church where the wedding had been scheduled, attended the bash thrown by Katie Hosking, 22, a medical assistant at the Everett Clinic, and her parents, Bill and Susan Hosking of Lake Stevens. "They had a DJ and really good music. It was a warm, friendly atmosphere. The food was delicious. It was a nice break with people not worrying about anything for one night," shelter manager Carol Oliva said. "Toward the end of the evening, they packed up all the leftover food and we got to bring it back to the shelter." One homeless woman got her son out of a wheelchair, "took that child out on the dance floor and picked him up and danced with him. It was a beautiful sight. Our kids realized that even when something bad happens, somebody else has something worse," Susan Hosking said. "It was an eye-opener." [Now that's compassion  ]Read Article... http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/aplocal_story.asp?c... |
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07-01-2005, 03:21 AM
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07-01-2005, 01:44 PM
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Homeless people are gross. They should have given them a lecture on being responsible citizens and urged them to get jobs insted of throwing a party for them.
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07-01-2005, 01:56 PM
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07-01-2005, 01:56 PM
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 Wedding #7 (IF I do it) will be quite some time away...maybe a year or two...I have some things I have to do first  |
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07-01-2005, 03:26 PM
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07-01-2005, 03:38 PM
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07-01-2005, 03:39 PM
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Homeless typically fall into a few categories. Most are either mentally disturbed and need to be in mental instutitions ASAP with proper treatment, or they are under severe addictions and need assistance to rid them of their addictions. Occasionally there are some hard-luck stories, and then there are your runaways. Then of course many who hold a sign on a freeway off ramp aren't really homeless but do it as an easy way to make money of suckers. The truly homeless need compassion and love, not scourn or ridicule, not enabling, not "clean needles" or "homeless credit cards" (San Francisco has come up with some doozies)
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07-01-2005, 03:43 PM
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07-01-2005, 03:49 PM
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Dear lord... I agree with CCC...
Im gonna go eat some chocolate or something.....
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07-01-2005, 04:53 PM
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Or maybe you qualify as a minority and have been given the money to go to school. I sure you wouldn't like to earn your college money the way poor, white males do ... come join me in Uncle's Sam's Traveling Circus (aka the US Army).
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07-01-2005, 05:42 PM
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Indeed. Im working nearly 9 hours a day, everyday this summer (save two days every other week), just to make enough to cover living expenses at college. Ill then have to get 1... maybe even 2 jobs on top of my class's... And on top of this, I have the knowledge that If I dont do well in school, and get a good job during school, or upon graduation, I could easily spend 10 years barely making ends meet. But I certainly wont leech off my parents, and I certainly wont auction my morals on the army chopping block.
No offense NJ. Ill be honest--Its tempted me, as Im sure it is all those who dont come from well furnished households. On top of that, Im currently being taxed nearly 20% a paycheck... Thats 150$ every other week... Which is somewhat distressing to me... But so it goes for the bottom feeders of this country who have to hold up the wealthy and well furnished.
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07-01-2005, 06:07 PM
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And forget the DJ, just have them do karaoke.
