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Dublin, 1963. A 16-year-old girl walks home from school when a van pulls up beside her. Two nuns step out. They grab her arms and force her inside. Her crime? She's pretty. Too pretty. "A temptation to men." She's taken to a large gray building with bars on the windows. The nuns cut her hair short. Take her clothes. Give her a uniform. Tell her she's a sinner. Tell her she'll work here now. To atone. She wouldn't leave for 14 years. Her name was Mary. And she was one of over 10,000 women imprisoned in Ireland's Magdalene Laundries church-run institutions that destroyed lives under the guise of saving souls. Ireland, 1922-1996. The Magdalene Laundries were institutions run by the Catholic Church, supposedly to "rehabilitate" fallen women. But "fallen" was defined however the Church wanted. You were sent there if you were: Pregnant and unmarried Pretty and "tempting men to sin" Raped (yes, r@pe victims were sent there for be...

The real-life Notebook couple: Husband and wife who were married for 75 years die hours apart, holding hands in bed, after she whispered 'wait for me, I'll be there soon'  A pair of childhood sweethearts who were married for 75 years have fulfilled their final wish to die in each other's arms after they passed away clutching hands, within hours of each other, in their bed. Jeanette Toczko, 96, and her 95-year-old husband, Alexander Toczko, from San Diego, California, spent their lives in love after becoming boyfriend and girlfriend when they were only eight years old. But several weeks ago, Mr Toczko suffered a broken hip in a fall and was left bed-bound. A local hospice delivered a special bed to his home, which staff pushed up next to his beloved wife's bed. As Mr Toczko's condition quickly declined, Mrs Toczko's own health took a turn for the worse. The couple had always said they wished to die 'in their own bed, holding hands, in each other's...

The Man Who Woke Up at His Own Funeral “In Paraguay, a man named Vilmar S. woke up during his own funeral after being wrongly declared dead. He started moving in the body bag — shocking mourners mid-prayer.” He was declared dead and was being buried, the boy shocks his family when he appears before them A boy declared dead in Paraguay has shocked his grieving family. Juan Ramon Alfonso Penayo, returned home to find family members mourning his death after a burned body was mistakenly identified by police. The boy had been missing from home in the village of Santa Teresa for several days, and police discovered the remains of a burned body. Since the body could not be identified, police thought it might be Penayo. The family, devastated by grief, was holding a funeral service when the 20-year-old returned home to find his loved ones mourning his death. Drug gangs operated in the area, so officials feared Penayo was involved with them and his end was horrendous. When police found th...

The accounts coming out from the music festival are horrific. They need to be shared. The world needs to know the evil that innocent people faced this weekend.  Here is one account from one of the survivors May Hayat (part 1/2):  So I went to work with my girlfriend Liron at the bar in the Nova’s party, the whole night and morning we were together. We had so much fun.  There was a beautiful sunrise and we went towards our trailer to drink coffee and rest. Then the nightmare began- rockets started flying over our heads.  The music was stopped and we waited for the situation to calm down so we could go home. Suddenly I get a phone call from a friend who says that she and everyone who’s started driving back home from the party is being shot.  I ran to the police officers closest to me to ask them to go and reinforce the people in the vehicles, but then we realized that there’s so many terrorists in our area and they are very close to us. There was one big chaos. We...

For much of the 1980s, the Menendez family appeared to be the perfect symbol of the American dream.    Jose Menendez was a hardworking Cuban immigrant who had become a successful entertainment executive, and his wife Kitty Menendez was a former beauty queen.    Not only did the couple live in one of the most fashionable areas of Beverly Hills, but they also shared two promising sons, Lyle and Erik. But behind closed doors, all was not well with the Menendez family — and this became painfully clear after 21-year-old Lyle and 18-year-old Erik brutally murdered their parents.    After they were caught confessing to their crimes on tape, Lyle and Erik would later claim in court that they had only killed their father because he had been physically, emotionally, and sexually abusive toward both of them for years.    They also alleged that their mother constantly looked the other way during the abuse and then eventually began an incestuous relationship ...

Breaking.   Buckle up.  As best as I can tell, this is the story.  Here is the story in real language.   A 17 year old boy wanted or@l “satisfaction” I’ll just say.  He found a willing participant.  But he was being tricked. Unbeknownst to him his future paramour was male. He was expecting a female.   Now this hapless lad was no angel in himself.  He set up video cameras to surreptitiously video this encounter.   Got it so far?   Boy 1 sets up cameras to get a sexual encounter filmed without the other person knowing.   Boy 2 participates in an act that could be described as r*pe by deception.   Boy 1 then uploaded the video.  That has to be some crime.  But the joke was on him.   When all his buddies watched the footage they said, um,dude, that chick you were with was a dude.   Boy 1 goes ballistic.  Sets up a wicked plan.  Wants revenge.  Gets a bu...