As you may know, I was a vocal and frequent poster to this forum, attempting to wrest my grandaughter from Casa by the Sea. That occurred...albeit sort of through the back door...when her mother found her pretty much a normal teen at PC1 and then picked her up 2 weeks later (around late August). Many things have transpired in our lives since then, but we have weekly or bi-weekly phone calls from our grandaughter lasting for more than 1 hour each. She remains the same wonderful child she always was, but her life is very hard now at home, primarily due to her step-father who got her "sent away" in the first place.
My beef with Carey was personal. She somewhat-smugly felt righteous in publishing my very-personal email to her, asking her to back off the PURE shit and allow the anti-WWASPS postings to tell the story we needed to get our grandaughter out. Again, I see this valuable forum degrading into a "Carey War". How can this one person control the thoughts and progress of so many folks who want to stop the abuse of so many children? If her desire for validation and public acknowledgement is so great, must we all bow to it? Please let it drop!!!!!!!!!!!!
I was the Anon giving the blow-by-blow costs of Casa. I was the Anon giving the saga of getting the most basic requirements of personal hygience (soap) at Casa. I just went Anon, because everyone else does it.
I will post another thread shortly with some very poignant questions, a lot on the theme of Ginger's love for her parents. For now, I wish to say that I have "known" the Colburn's, Nancy and Lee, for almost a year, and have seldom met such up-front wonderful people. They gave me moral support, free access to Lee even when he was traveling on business, a Casa contract which I forwarded to several important people, and all the sympathy and help possible over the Internet. Both of these folks, Lee as Ryan's father and Nancy as his very loving step-mother, are the salt of the earth. If these people don't meet your expectations of what you think normal, emotional, passionate people are...you're looking to die and go to Heaven, because that's the only place you'll find better. Go ahead...shoot yourself in the head, and find the Perfect Person in Heaven. We here on Earth have work to do, and we may be able to do it better without you.