Word: jessi
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...jessi j. halligan...
...community network that American colleges have." "It's hard," says Rachel Polner, "if you do have a serious problem, because you can't just hop on a flight and be home in two hours." Trinity's Filbi warns that in Ireland, "we don't spoon-feed our students." Jessi Hathaway, 18, who left her home in Kennebunkport, Maine, to begin studies at Trinity this year, suggests other Americans plan to bring "an outgoing personality and a sense of adventure" if they plan to survive...
...sits in the forest-green dining room, sipping herbal tea out of a mug decorated with little footprints, hearts and the words IT'S A GIRL. How is she holding herself together? "People can't understand," she says. "They think I'm falling to pieces nonstop in front of Jessi. But I would never do that." And then Robby DeBoer breaks down, heaving and weeping. The cries are not plaintive, not whimpers, but sobs that send her body shaking and her voice coming from deep inside her. And she is angry...
...managed to pervert the whole issue of best interests of the child. It's time that people realized that adoption is for children, not infertile adults." Jan DeBoer recoils at such charges. "The Schmidts accuse us of delaying the proceedings to help ourselves," he says. "But I want Jessi to know the truth -- that we only appealed for her own protection...
...tears . . . But when the tears begin to fall and you look at me for reassurance and say, 'Mama's heartbroken,' I will not be able to console you with my loving kisses and say, 'It will all mend.' " And then mother turns on mother. "It will never mend, Jessi. It is Cara and the law that ((have)) broken you into a thousand pieces...