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if you are so worried about it, why don't you call and ask for God sakes!

Posted By: DBTV on 2005-07-05
In Reply to: what does Mr. Jug Twitty do for a living? And what about Jar, his brother. - Just me again

Why do you care? It doesn't concern you. How much money they have has nothing to do with you. The fact that she presses the media and gives a lot of interviews, lets the media follow her around, etc. is the reason why there is interest in the story. She MAKES it a story.

I don't understand why you would be upset that a mother is getting media coverage for searching for her lost child? Are you jealous of her money or something?


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