My little girl was given a beautiful dress for Christmas in 1983, delicately woven throughout the hemline was a ribbon of purple. I sat up for hours carefully undoing and removing this, as I felt purple meant death. (yeah I'm a bit obsessive, she's 23 now, and NEVER has owned anything purple). Purple hair ties, stretch suits, rompers, socks,etc., were never kept for her.
On Christmas 1986 she was given a porcelain doll, the woman that bought it wasn't one on my "gift exchange" list, so I was surprised when she stopped by with this gift saying "I saw this and I saw her, I just had to buy it." Scarier yet! The doll's name was the same as my daughter! I hated that doll, I couldn't leave her in a box( with her name on it) for exactly the same reasons that ran through Patsy's head.
We had at least three close calls during her baby days, once in a grocery store a man took her by the hand, I grabbed it back ,he said, "I'm sorry I was a bit preoccupied and thought she was mine".
Another time, a man drove up, got out of his car and walked onto my porch, I ran out to grab her, he claimed he was interested in cleaning my carpet. He went to no other home before or after.
Yet another time a woman asked if she could watch her while I stood in line, saying "she is just toooo cute and it would be easier for you." When I thanked her and said "that is sweet but she's fine with me", she got nasty and stomped away.
There were incidents as she grew up ,as well. A very nicely dressed woman in Bloomingdales asked me if I would consider letting her model ,she did hand her a card,but who knows? It hasn't stopped, last week a strange man approached her on the strip telling her he had never seen such a perfect face, could he paint her. He was obviously gay and artsy, but still??
I believe this isn't just about a pretty face,(there are pretty girls everywhere) there is something vulnerable and victim like about her. There has always been something that "stood" out, something angelic ,empathetic, almost "lazarus" about her.( as in give me your tired your poor) Maybe it's stupidity! Heck if I know ,but I DO KNOW she easily could have been a victim, and NOT BY HER FAMILY!
Thank God nothing ever happened to her, and when I first started reading about Patsy and Jonbenet I thought, but for the grace of God we could have had parallel lives.
Brothermoon has perhaps characterized the killer, but it isn't a Ramsey IMO
W. MCREYNOLDS: She saved my soul.
J.MCREYNOLDS
And I feel that the message that I am getting -- the under- current of all of this -- is that the media is saying to this collective community -- to our global village -- in some way she deserved to die.
J.MCREYNOLDS:
That, at least, is a message that I am getting: She deserved to die because she was too beautiful. She deserved to die because she was from an affluent family.
She deserved to die because she lived an up scale community. She deserved to die because her family taught her gestures which might be interpreted as sexually suggestive. She deserved to die because she was in beauty pageants.
There's even an implication on some of the talk shows she deserved to die because sometimes she wore lipstick. And to me, that is a crucification of an innocent victim, and I would really, really like to see it stopped.
I have to stop and think about this odd couple and their very odd comments. IMO