romeo standing: kissing can be deadly
A fifteen year old teen died after kissing her boyfriend. Apparently her sweetie had a peanut butter snack before laying a deadly one on her. The young Canadian suffered from an nut allergy that prevented her from recovering from the kiss even after the immediate adminstering of an adrenaline shot - a quick and common remedy for severe allergic actions. Check out the full story here.
I am curious as to how the boyfriend is feeling right now. I extend my deepest condolences to the friends and family of the young lady. But how does one live with the knowledge that your lips, your kiss, in essence, took the life of your dearly beloved? Will he ever kiss again? Does kissing continue to have the same urgency for him as it does for most teens his age? This must be a terribly difficult situation to live with. Shakespeare's Juliet killed herself due to the desperate emptiness she felt upon laying eyes upon her dead lover, Romeo. This young lady's death was senseless. However, how can one blame the young man? I'm sure that blaming boyfriend is a battle her family struggles against every day that separates them from her smile, her laugh, her last frustrated sigh or glance. This is the psa for waiting until you know a person to be intimate - kissing and the like. Maybe he didn't know, maybe he didn't remember, however, from this story we learn that, in addition to sex, kissing can be deadly.
We should take this story as a caution to think before we act and to definitely have another person's best interest in our hearts before we take an action that may hurt them (Disclaimer: This in no way assigns guilt to the boyfriend. I simply wanted to draw attention to our abilities to overlook our loved ones' foibles in pursuit of our own gratification).
posted by becomingme at 12:06 PM
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These three newest posts are ach interesting in their way. The 'dangerous' cities post, with your St. Louis example, is a good exemplar of what people do to things by simply 'talking' it up. I live right close to Newark, NJ -am there much of the time, and have no problem with that. [But]The place is known and said to be reeling with violence, drugs, indigence, etc. And, yes, it probably is and may well be; yet, much of that can only be blamed on a past history of 'white-flight', thus leaving the dregs to the dross, and, now, of insidious Governmental corruption and takeover. Essentially a socialist environment, there is nothing left but Government, subsidized housing, hospitals, subsidized care, a rigid (and corrupt) police and political structure. It is, essentially, run as a neglected east-European type communal hell-hole. Government is in name only. It cannot, and will not, ever improve a situation - merely works to keep it in check and keep its 'wards' quiet. If this means drugs and violence - then so be it. This goes, too, for Paterson, NJ, Elizabeth, NJ, and everywhere else that the 'Gentrification by White' crusade has not yet selection for its inflationary habits. When that happens to Newark - and it will - the current residents are truly doomed. I'd lay money on St. Louis facing the same.
Ihave a lot more to say, but I'm going on too long.
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