WaPo: Terri Schiavo's Unstudied Life

[Penndems]

The Woman Who Is Now a Symbol And a Cause Hated the Spotlight

By Jennifer Frey
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, March 25, 2005; Page C01

She was a girl who laughed easily at her uncle's lame jokes. A girl so naive that she wrote to John Denver, asking him to come sing at her wedding, who went to Disney World for her honeymoon and believed that a good life meant that one day she'd be able to vacation there every year with her kids.

She was a girl who loved animals and worshiped cute television stars, paying homage to heartthrobs Starsky and Hutch by naming two gerbils after them. She daydreamed about working for a veterinarian when she grew up, or maybe just being a dog groomer.

She was a shy girl, always overweight as a child, with big glasses, but shiny hair and perfect skin and a tendency to collapse into fifth-grade giggles. Her first car -- a black-and-gold Trans Am with a T-top roof -- exuded the flash and confidence that she herself never did.

She was a girl who married the first man she ever kissed.
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More here:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64459-2005Mar24.html

This is a wonderful piece. Well worth reading all the way through.

:)

[BrklynLiberal]

1. Interesting. Gives one more insight into her as a person than any other

piece I have seen. Some subtle negative implications about her relationship with her husband. Guess it would impossible to find a totally objective piece at this point in time, and one can never be sure exactly what the total truth is any more.