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...they ever could, could not be entertained." This contentious tone colors much of her discussion. Greer argues that upon marriage Anne had not passed "her sell-by date" - the average Elizabethan woman married at 27 - and that as a landholder she could gain little by seducing a "penniless teenage boy, with nothing to his name but a grammar school education." Religious mores render the femme fatale interpretation even more unlikely. Had she entrapped an unwilling innocent in God-fearing Stratford, Anne would "have found herself up before the Vicar's Court in less time than it takes...
...gossip that William was free with his favors, and a homosexual. The publication of Venus and Adonis, Shakespeare's decidedly erotic poem and his biggest claim to fame among his contemporaries, disrupted her quiet life. Neighbors likely sneered that Anne inspired the poem's "desirous older woman" with a boy husband...
...James Lowe started talking, something he couldn't do until a year ago. He is 51, a disabled coal miner from the hollows of eastern Kentucky, and he was born with a severe cleft palate. When he tried to talk as a boy, he couldn't make himself understood, so after a while he stopped trying. Lowe dropped out of school in the fifth grade, followed his father into the mines and still couldn't afford treatment. Then he was partially paralyzed in a mining accident. That didn't leave him many options...
...illegal adoption, and she came to Antigua to see if Esther was one of the infants found at Casa Quivira. "We are not animals to be bought and sold," she says, clutching Esther's photo. Meanwhile, in Chicago, Roth had been waiting with her husband David to adopt a boy and a girl from Casa Quivira - but now, after having paid half the $30,000 fee, she finds everything in a precarious state of limbo. "I feel," says Ann, 37, "like someone has kicked me in the stomach ten times...
...less well-known abroad than the nearby Kings Cross station popularized in J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series, St. Pancras still had the last laugh: Its grand gothic interior was the location for the scene in the movie version of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone when the boy wizard departs from the mythical platform...