Re: the end of the road/Viginia Governor's phone no. /

[Hilary Blue <azure2@xxxxxxxxx>]

dear ivan
no calls to the governor,please!
i appreciate your response
but i think at this point i have to stop,
 if only for jessica's sake.
she needs some continuity in  her life
she is settled into a good school
 her second year  in high school az nd
er second year in the same school
she has friends
 she  has teachers
and i  get ot see her every other week for the whole weekend
some people send their  kids
to  boarding school at this age
particularly those with behavioural problems
maybe i can pretend i'm rich
and she is at finishing shoal
- haha, not funny.
my mom taught me the old song -
keep right on to the end of the road -
but she never told me what to do when you got there......
hilary

Ivan M Suzman wrote:
>
> hilary,
>
> please ask someone for the governor of                        virginia's
> phone number
>
> and post that tel. no.
> on PIEN
>
>  I  will be VOCAL
> and encorage others to call, too
>
> :-0
> Ivan
>
> On Tue, 19 Sep 2000 13:53:40 -0400 Hilary Blue <azure2@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> > dear ivan,
> > and any other interested list members
> >
> > i have just received a letter from my lawyer. in it he states " it
> > will be
> > very difficult to have a plan other than permanent foster care
> > approved given
> > the timeframe in which Jessica has been in a return to home plan"
> >  in other words
> > our time has run out.
> > we have tried to keep the options open
> >  for jessica (my youngest daughter) to return home,
> > but virginia law
> > just doesn't allow the possibility.
> >  She has been in limbo for too long.
> > she is in an after school program
> > which is only available to kids in foster care,
> > nobody  can explain why this is so,
> > it would make far more sense
> > if she went to school
> > from my house in the morning,
> >  then to this program,
> > and then came home in the evening.
> > But no , to be in compliance with me regulation or other.
> >  she has to stay in a foster home,
> > with  a family of a different religion,
> >  a mother who is older than me
> > and quite preoccupied with her menopause.
> > And she is only allowed to see  me
> > every other weekend,
> > Thank heavens for small mercies -
> > this has just been extended to the whole weekend.
> > So what can i do
> > but breathe a deep sigh of regret and resignation
> > and thank all those who have helped me fight
> > and learn to accept that
> > my daughter's teenage years
> > will be spent with somebody else's mother
> > except for every other weekend.
>
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>  Ivan Suzman        50/39/36       cureit@xxxxxxxx      :-)
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