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House: Currier Concentration: ESP (P) Hometown: North Attleboro, MA / Turku, Finland Ideal Date: Crazy cuisine I’ve never tried before followed by some public destination-enhanced recreational activities. Best way for a girl to get your attention: Quirky fashion sense, including birthday-oriented attire. Where to find you on a Saturday night: Pregame with my teammates then out on the streets...literally. First thing you notice about a girl: Ability to dance, followed quickly by ability to not bore me to death. Your best pick-up line: No words, a little eye contact foreplay followed by smile...
...bright, fleeting moment, it worked, this fairy tale of American bigheartedness. In September Forrest King, a self-described "dyed-in-the-wool conservative," and his wife Marie Hancock-King opened up their home in Attleboro, Mass., to a lesbian couple with three small children and a grandmother, all of whom had fled Slidell, La., and Hurricane Katrina. The Meehan-Hoos placed their kids in school and heaped gratitude on their hosts. And King said they could stay indefinitely. TIME ran a story about the arrangement (Sept. 26, 2005), calling it a friendship "across the red-blue divide...
...Meehan-Hoos recently moved into a three-bedroom duplex. The other day, a fire fighter dropped off some toys. A secondhand store furnished the house. "Attleboro has been wonderful to us," says Jan. The couple has decided to stay. Jan and Yolanda campaigned for Allard's re-election. Both women say they plan to find jobs after the holidays. King, meanwhile, says he would be happy to try hosting again. "I would not let this hurt my family's goodwill...
...town of Attleboro has aggressively adopted the Meehan-Hoos. Locals have given them $600 in Old Navy gift cards and $60 in Borders certificates. A nearby inn has donated a romantic dinner for two for the couple. A coffee shop will deliver a pastry tray every week, "from now until whenever," according to Kim Allard, a city councilor who has helped arrange donations. "It's unbelievable," says Yolanda. "I told Jan, 'There's no way we can ever move out of this town...
...three Meehan-Hoo kids sat around the kitchen table and painted pictures of their house in Louisiana, which is now under three feet of water. Then the boys played video games with Marie's daughter Sabrina, while Taylor, 9, climbed the tree out front. The population in the Attleboro household has almost doubled. "This hectic situation has got to calm down," admits King. They plan to hold weekly family meetings and vent freely all the time. To Jan's relief, Marie has started to chastise the Meehan-Hoo kids. "She jumped in and said, 'Don't do that...