kathy.  O boy.  Just know you're in my continued prayers.  I have no 
advice... but the only thing i can do is pray... and sometimes that's 
better... or more helpful.  Nothing against any advice anyones given you so 
far... just know i'll be praying.
Love.
Jenifer gilley
"Friends are angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble 
remembering how to fly."
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kathy Du Bois" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Monday, March 06, 2006 3:09 PM
Subject: we've heard from Chris


> Hi Guys,
> Chris called last Thursday evening.  We must have talked for more
> than a half an  hour.  He admitted, to me, that he is not very happy,
> but I think that he still feels that he has to find a way to save
> face or something.  He admitted that he knows that he should move
> back home and try to pull his act together and go back to church, but
> he just doesn't want to face that.  He's living with a highschool
> drop out right now; a friend of Nicki's older brother.
> He still works, when he feels like it,  at the tela--marketing
> job.  He has discovered, however that you can not show up for work
> for weeks and still have the job if you want it. I guess that they
> are desperate for workers.  I asked him how he was paying his share
> of the rent if he wasn't working steady.  He told me he was working
> on it.  That gives me chills.   He told me that his supervisor was
> arrested, on the job, for doing cocaine in the bathroom.  He really
> knows how to pick em, the circumstances, that is.
> The thing that concerns me the most is that Nicki's parents enticed
> Chris into taking out a cell phone plan for all of them, in his name.
> Evidently, they can't get a land line or a cell phone plan in their
> own name because their credit is so bad. He thinks that its okay
> because they told him that they will pay his part of the bill and if
> they don't he can just have their phones shut off.  However, they
> have the trump card because, if he does that, they may be pretty mean
> to Nicki.  He told us that they are already mean to her when he
> doesn't give them money.  Can you believe this?  I couldn't write a
> fiction story this stupid. He said that when Nicki's father got his
> pay check last Friday, the first place they went was to the
> cacino.  Yes folks, they do it all in that family, drink, smoke and 
> gamble.
> He told me that he tried to break up with Nicki a few weeks ago
> because he is board with the relationship, but that he went back
> because she got really depressed.  Brother.  Now that he's in even
> thicker with them over this cell phone deal he's going to be dealing
> with them for at least two more years, unless the whole mess goes
> belly up, which will probably happen and in doing so will really mess
> up any hope that Chris had for establishing a credit rating.  I think
> that he's regreting the cell phone thing already.  He doesn't like
> where he is living and he let me say some pretty hard things to him
> last Thursday without snapping back.  He wants to get his deploma
> because he wants to go into the military, but he hates going to
> classes.  He's still failing everything.  He wants things, but he
> still isn't overriding his impulses enough to go about life the right way.
>   He wants to see Caleb in his first wrestling match this
> weekend.  We invited him to stay the night and ride to the meet with
> Greg and Caleb.  If he takes us up on the offer, maybe we'll have
> more time to talk.  One never knows, however.
> That's the latest from :Maine!  As always, thanks so much for praying!
> Kathy
>
> P.S.
> Caleb has been sleeping most of the day so I believe that the worst
> is over for him.  I just pray that nobody else gets it.