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Icarus
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quote:
Originally posted by TomDavidson:
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Really, if Francie -was- her actual two and a half years old, she'd probably have problems recognizing Therese at all.
This firmly establishes you as a man who has never had children, you realize. [Smile] That said, yeah, Francie's speaking like the most advanced two-year-old alive.
I hate to disagree with you, Tom, but I brought my girls home at the age of twenty-months. Two months later, we had their foster parents over for their second birthday party. The girls did not recognize them and most assuredly did not run to them. They hid behind us and stared uncertainly. Now, this kid is older, and apparently expremely precocious, but I just wanted to jump in and point out that there is some room for variation in kids' memories. Puffy's not all that far off base.
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"This firmly establishes you as a man who has never had children, you realize."

Puffy is a girl, she's porce's sister, last I heard.
Nope. Brother.
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I suppose it's a good thing I didn't email him and ask him if he's single, then. [ROFL]
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On Francie's memories of Therese, I just want to point out: She'll be three in March next year.

Anthony's told us Therese was never around during the brief period their marriage lasted past Francie's birth.

The letters and strip have given contradictory information since then on whether or not Francie's visited her mother since then.

Obviously it was a lot more than Anthony said, otherwise how could Francie recognize and miss what she never had?

On the other hand, this violates the "Therese was never interested in Francie/abandoned her" paradigm Lynn wants us to accept.

I still think she's acting like a girl a bit older than her in-strip age, with a history somewhat different from what we've been told.

But who can keep up with all the retcons?
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I brought my girls home at the age of twenty-months. Two months later, we had their foster parents over for their second birthday party.
Do kids get a chance to "imprint" on foster parents?
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Icarus
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They were with them from the day they left ICU until the day we adopted them. They never spent an hour in either birth parent's custody.
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I burn for you like a lukewarm drink

Not a direct link, but there's a great FBoFW parody about 10 strips down.
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Oh that's marvelous! And the rest of the comics are pretty funny too.

Elly's eyes in that last panel are going to be in my nightmares.
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The dead horse has sprouted flies; time to resume the beating.
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The happiest guy on the planet
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You've got to wonder if this strip was aimed at Johnson's ex-husband. If not, it must have been painful to write.
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Very true.
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Sterling
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Yeah, that felt like a shot at a philanderer to me as well.
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Huh. I thought it was sweet, classy, and professional she rose above her personal problems to talk about how marriage should be and stay true to her happily married characters. All in the eye of the beholder, I suppose.
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Staying true to her characters is not really a priority for the artist. [Wink]
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Was anyone else a bit disappointed to open the paper today and not see any foobish idiocy to rant about?
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quote:
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Was anyone else a bit disappointed to open the paper today and not see any foobish idiocy to rant about?
Oh, there's plenty of foolish idiocy in the newspaper to rant about, even without a certain comic strip...
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I usually like books that end telling you what happened for the rest of everyone's life. I didn't like Sunday's strip.
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