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Childress. The reporter’s name is . . . Lisa Childress. An odd duck, Nolasco recalled, but not afraid to ask tough questions.
“Mary Ellen had at one time worked for Mayor Edwards as a ‘special assistant’ after she went to law school and before she worked at the city attorney’s office.”
“Mothers will do amazing things for their children; won’t they? They’ll suffer greatly. Affairs and divorce tear families apart and hurt the children, who are often forced to take sides. I wanted my children to love their father and my grandchildren to love their grandfather. It was best for their development.
She admired Marilynn Edwards’s strength to have endured what she went through for her children.
Children don’t remain children. They become adults and they’re intuitive. They figure things out. They tolerate my husband as I have, but there isn’t any love lost between them. Their relationship with their father is superficial, at best. My son doesn’t idolize him, and he doesn’t want to be like him. He wants to be better. He puts his wife on a pedestal, and he’s a wonderful father.”
the woman seated with Tracy was now one tough lady. As Tracy’s mother had liked to say, each time she got hurt, it punched a hole in her paper heart, and when it healed, the scar toughened her. Marilynn Edwards’s heart was one big scar.
“Transcripts are often just a measure of someone’s interest in a subject, not their acumen. He did well in my class, and I encouraged him to apply himself.”
