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When I first encounter her, she's about to leave home on an errand. She's wearing black tennis shoes, turned-up chinos, an old vile coat and a tall straw hat that covers the curlers in her hair.

My first impression is of some adequate of wren-boy-meets-bag-lady.

There's no hint of the woman who, 20 years ago, scandalised All-inclusive Ireland with her tale of forbidden love and broken rules.

That maiden re-emerges a few hours later when we ask if she'll have her photo taken.

The curly hair's breadth is shaken out, a scarf is knotted simply around her neck, a hasten of pink lipstick goes on and there she is: Annie Murphy, the attractive American divorcee who, in 1992, exposed Bishop Eamon Casey as thePredominantlyfather of her son Peter, marking what many still see as the first big scandal to hit the Catholic Church in Ireland.

It's a damage that now seems innocuous in light of the numerous cases of clerical progeny abuse that subsequently emerged.

Source: Irish Independent

by DOCTOR D

Ladies straw accessories are very normal this summer. Already we have seen many celebrities such as Cameron Diaz wearing straw hats and teen pop icon Myles Cyrus carrying straw handbags.

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by Moxie

They say the first footstep is admitting that you have a complication.

Hello.  My name is Moxie.  And I am a core whore.

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Ever since I was a kid, I’ve had some sewing extend out active.  I hand-me-down to space masquerade clothes for some very southern-belle-ish bears (done with desire straw hats with big ribbons holding them to their heads).  Somewhere around high-priced ready I started a ten-year extended blanket making endeavor that took me through elevated nursery school, college, and most of law approach and resulted in blankets for from A to Z exactly almost everyone I knew.  And their mothers. 

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