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His first wife had apparently moved to Texas and she had 2 children that were not my husband's but who's fathers were not part of the picture. In the early morning hours of April 1st I got a phone call while he was at work from a man in Texas telling me that my hubby's ex was killed in an auto accident and that the older child remembered our phone number and since she had no family they needed a home for the children. I planned all day how to fit 2 extra children into the duplex we rented, when hubby came home I had him call the guy, then we talked to my hubby's father and he gave us a credit card for hubby to fly down and get the kids while I went through the phone book looking for a lawyer to help us. Later that evening SHE called, claimed to have been in a car accident and purses flew and it was mistaken identity and one of the other ladies in the car was killed! I told hubby that no way was that possible, there had to be someone to identify the body before all that would go on so, she pull the biggest prank of all times on us and we will never forgive her. My heart ached for those kids and then to find it was a joke, no, not funny!
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I think that is a very cruel joke on everyone involved.
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Yep, never forgave her.
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I think that is a very cruel joke on everyone involved. i don't blame you for not forgiving her.Not what I would call a joke
Bev
Bev
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Yeah, we haven't had any contact with her since.
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If she thought that was funny, I think she needs help!!! I feel bad that you had to go through something like that. Hugs, Judy
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She was trouble when he was with her too. Had both kids while they were together and neither was his.
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greysewist
01 Apr 2011
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She seriously considered this a funny thing to do? No wonder she's an 'ex'! I'd not find that at all funny, either. I'm also not a fan of those video shows where they show people slipping on dance floors at weddings and falling out of wheelbarrows etc, though.
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I don't think those videos are very funny either. She was trouble from the start but it took him a while to get rid of her. The last straw of the marriage was when she was in the hospital and he walked into her room and found another guy sitting on her bed!
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what a story. You should write this down and turn in to be published. !!!
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Our whole life could fill a book.
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Not so funny! actually quite cruel to put everyone through the heartache of the children etc. Hugs Sally
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I know, I was prepared to take in 2 kids age 7 and 4 that weren't even my husband's kids. Talk about ripping my heart out!
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fannyfurkin
01 Apr 2011
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Definitely not funny. How frantic would you have been. My goodness your husband even though it was an X it is still distressing to hear such thing. I remember when my X husband died, It still effects you. I really can't imagine what both of you must have been going through that day, that is a very cruel joke.
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Once several years after that he was in line at Arby's for take out supper and heard her voice coming from behind a bit and he could tell she was talking louder to get him to look back but he didn't, he got our order and walked out without looking her way.
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I hate it when dumb people (sorry) do stupid tricks like that it just makes me want to cry!!carolyn
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She was just plain trouble from the start. After hubby and I got married and I was 4 months pregnant she threatened to throw me through a sliding glass 2 on the second story!
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This is not a joke at all. Shame on her! I am so lucky as My Late DH ex is one of my friends. She moved out to be with her boyfriend and 26 years later is still with him. My Ex was a real pig and the wrong one has gone. Lyn
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She was trouble, glad she is out of our lives.
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NOT a nice thing to do to anyone, She is a very nasty person to do this. Yes i feel for the children. I wonder how she would feel if this happened to her!!! I bet you no longer have contact . I dont blame you. Pauline
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No contact since that day. Glad he wasn't the father of those kids or she would have been in our lives forever.
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That is a terrible thing to do - not funny at all. What was she thinking? Obviously not thinking at all of the heartache she would bring.
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We have no idea why she would be so cruel.
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What a nasty Prank.It must have been terrible to go through that,and you can judge yourself as having a heart of gold, for the idea of having the kids come and be part of your family.
Maybe my "April Fool" would amuse you.I am still the fool. Married 33yrs on April 1st.
From Bev
Maybe my "April Fool" would amuse you.I am still the fool. Married 33yrs on April 1st.
From Bev
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Still don't understand her motives for it.
Your April fool is much better! Glad it wasn't a joke!
Your April fool is much better! Glad it wasn't a joke!
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Oh Debra, how can anybody think that this is funny? Even a very stupid person must realise that it isn't a joke telling that she is dead and you have to take the kids (and not his own!). Poor kids with such a terrible person as mother...
Must have my first coffee after reading this (it's morning here)
Greetings, Bettina
Must have my first coffee after reading this (it's morning here)
Greetings, Bettina
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That first year after we married we took the kids to see Santa and had them some weekends, she told us that without us the kids would not get a Christmas so we bought $300 worth of clothes and toys for under their tree, on Christmas she sent them to us with hand me down clothes on. New Years day she called and said she didn't want them to be confused so we couldn't see them any more! She told me she could have gotten child support from him and stuff but was being nice, ha ha!
I can understand your hubby that he still wonders how these kids were today. How long was he marride to her? Those kids are happy and stick to everybody who give them steadiness. For kids something like this must be disturbing (always think on the foster-kid from camylow that they take away).
Greetings, Bettina
Greetings, Bettina
He was with her for 9 years but only married for 1 1/2 years and he can't figure out why he bothered to marry her. She told his sisters that the second child was his but he knew who the father was, a married guy he worked with.
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Debra, I only can imagine how this hurt you both. I hope she realized that what she did was very cruel.
Big hugs to you, Yoriko
Big hugs to you, Yoriko
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I don't think she cared who she hurt. Thanks for the hug, glad those days are long gone.
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maggieduck
01 Apr 2011
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not funny no
big hugs Maggie
big hugs Maggie
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Thanks Maggie, no it wasn't funny at all.
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sewfrenzie
01 Apr 2011
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Thats no joke thats just cruel!!!
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Very cruel. Hubby just came by my door and I told him I posted this and he said he still wonders how the kids are and where they are. They are now about 41 and 38. It happened 32 years ago, I had a 2 year old and was newly pregnant.
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anitapatch
01 Apr 2011
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I can feel for you
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Thanks, hoping to not get any phone calls today!
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That's no joke, it's cruel and almost criminal!!
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I know, I was frantic for the kids, planning how to be a step-mom at the age of 22!
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lindalee757
01 Apr 2011
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wow Lee-that is just disturbed and sick-not even close to funny. ~linda~
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I believe she must have been. Glad she is gone from our lives.
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Now I like a joke as well as the next person... But that wasn't a joke.. that was just pure meanness... they will be sorry for that joke one day. I feel for you guys, but am so glad it wasn't true for the kids sake (at that time).
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I actually wonder who the kids would have been better off with. She messed up the marriage by cheating more than once and I think she was jealous that he was happy with me.
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That isn't even a joke. That's terrible, what are people thinking when they do that kind of stuff? What a mean and nasty person.
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I know, I was frantic, hubby was worried. We were beside ourselves the entire day and our heads were swimming with details we knew would be necessary since they were not his biological kids. The only family she had was a brother she hadn't spoken to in many years.
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marymadeit
01 Apr 2011
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She must be a mean sprited person. A real Texan would never do anything like that.
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She wasn't a Texan, she was from here in Ohio but she moved to Texas and some poor family took pity on her and took her in, she could always find someone to take advantage of and people fell for her stories.
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dlonnahawkins
01 Apr 2011
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Ooh - that was a cruel one! I don't care for pranks too much - and don't remember every playing too many April Fools jokes.
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I'm not good at jokes so I don't remember ever really doing any. But her and I did not get along because of things she did.
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sounds like a very unhappy lady who need to find some happiness somewhere in a good way...in a way its too bad you didn't end up with those children...you would have done better for them than a nasty spirited woman...
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She had 3 kids by 3 different men and only married one of them and he was abusive, that was right after her and my hubby divorced, she got pregnant right after the divorce.
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sewlikedawn
01 Apr 2011
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I can't understand how some people can be so mean! But the beauty in the story is that you had no problems taking in someone else's children. You must have a big heart. The jokes on her!
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Thank you. I would have been the best mom I could to them. We have 2 boys of our own and they were spoiled for sure!
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For someone to pull such a cruel act is absolutely horrible. What those poor children must have gone through living with these people. If they grew up half way normal, it's a miracle. So sorry this happened to you. I just can't imagine.
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Yeah, pretty sad, but one thing I know is that she did love her children.