<p>Wait…</p>
<p>Are HoyaMom and Gardener the same person?? or using w’s SN, too. No problem with that… but just wondering because of below quote from HoyaMom…</p>
<p>Hoya quote: “I have mentioned more than once that I don’t see this as the BF’s fault. He must make his life choices and whether he is “off track” etc is for his parents to address. Frankly, I am more concerned about my DD and why she is suddenly so well…stupid.”</p>
<p>and this from HoyaMom:
HoyaMom was a young man once???
I don’t get this. Hoyamom has a sophomore son at Georgetown, and a younger D, while gardner has 2 D’s. But Hoyamom is actually a man. This is very confusing. I’m going to bed.</p>
<p>HoyaMom and Gardner:</p>
<p>Are you in the same family??? What is going on?</p>
<p>Edited response after reviewing past threads!</p>
<p>i think hoyamom just mistyped
she is actually a mom from texas unless she has recently had a sex change- and with the price of tuition who could afford one?</p>
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<p>Well, her mistyping somehow caused her to speak very clearly in the persona of Gardener. I suspect we won’t be hearing anymore from either of them on this thread.</p>
<p>emerald </p>
<p>hoya may have mistyped. But how do we explain that Hoya is now posting as if he/she is one of the parents of the daughter in question?
In post #98, hoya says, "Frankly, I am more concerned about my DD and why she is suddenly so well…stupid. "</p>
<p>Something is a bit odd…</p>
<p>Oh for gosh sakes, Hoyamom has already added some posts about her D having similar issues in this thread.</p>
<p>Been reading too much Da Vinci Code?!</p>
<p>"HoyaMom was a young man once???
I don’t get this. Hoyamom has a sophomore son at Georgetown, and a younger D, while gardner has 2 D’s. But Hoyamom is actually a man. This is very confusing. I’m going to bed.
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<p>LOL. I saw that too choco. HAHAHAHAHA. What is up with this?</p>
<p>What happened to the OP? Is he not coming back if he is also the other poster?</p>
<p>Perhaps HoyaMom’s H was reading using her account and posted something to contribute to the thread.</p>
<p>or… the OP was a ■■■■■ created by HoyaMom</p>
<p>or the same thing is happening to HoyaMom’s daughter and she created another account to protect her identity</p>
<p>Driver seems to have picked up on this one early on. Odd that he/she knew immediately what was up. If the OP was a ■■■■■ I certainly was pulled into the story.</p>
<p>The original “Gardener” posted stuff like this, from February, 2004:
Then there was the “Gardener” that most of us remember from the 2004 Parent’s Forum, who said the she was Gardener’s mom, and using the same screen name. I believe she said she was Hispanic, a professional gardener, and that her daughter had received over $1M (aggregate) scholarship offers targeted toward Hispanic students and been accepted to 17 schools. The latest “Gardener” is apparently now the husband, who has taken over his wife’s interest in admissions (along with her identical writing style). </p>
<p>What happened when Hoyamom got involved? Those of us who came to CC as refugees from another college discussion board–which had been so overrun by ■■■■■■■■ teenagers as to become nearly useless for exchanging valid information–will recall the amusing results when one or another of these ■■■■■■ forgot to switch screennames before responding to a post addressed to one of their alter cyber-egos. This is clearly what happened here. Hoyamom said that her daughter shared a hidden disease issue, but other than that she had nothing else to offer. She then responded to Snorky, as coureur pointed out, clearly in Gardener’s persona, discussing Gardener’s exact BF issues.</p>
<p>Before abandoning this thread earlier, I mentioned that I do some ■■■■■■■■ myself, **for fish<a href=“and%20I%20believe%20this%20where%20the%20cyber-expression%20comes%20from.”>/b</a> You get out in a boat, you put a great shiny lure on your line, you cast it into the open sea, and then you ride around sipping cold drinks until some poor sucker comes along and bites. Then you play the line, you reel him in, and there he is, flopping on the deck. Like my good friend Garland. :)</p>
<p>Well, this is certainly a fascinating mystery. I puzzled over it last night as I was waiting for my D to come home from Prom. I’m curious as heck–did Hoyamom create Gardener? Hoyamom’s last post so strange , really makes me wonder . . . I went back and reread stuff (nothin’ better to do in the wee hours of the morning while waiting . . .) and yes, Hoya mentioned that her D had health issues and was ED as well, but I couldn’t find any posts that mentioned a similar boyfriend problem until the last, uh, confusing post --ah well, perhaps I missed them . . . </p>
<p>Well, if Gardener’s post IS for real, (or Gardener aka Hoyamom–but with a real problem)–my advice is to do what it takes, to get her to school. The daughter in question will never know “what might have been” if she doesn’t give it a shot. I think she will regret it if she doesn’t try it.</p>
<p>I have to hand it to you driver, I just didn’t see it and you spotted it right off. Color me naive. It just seemed so non-sensational a story to me. It makes you wonder how many other stories are fake.</p>
<p>Well, if it is a teenager–what an “odd” thing to do for fun. The topic seems unusual for a teenage ■■■■■–am I the only one to think so? --Perhaps Hoya created Gardener in an attempt to be anonymous in discussing a real problem with her D. . . </p>
<p>Oh well, off to the mall!</p>
<p>Off to son’s violin lesson!</p>
<p>I tend to think it’s a multiple sn issue … but I think the problem is real, if disguised by names/sexes etc.</p>
<p>Do what it takes to get the student in question to school. Get the peditrician involved in explaining the medical issues. Be charming to child’s significant other – and remember this is only a 4 month old relationship. There is <em>at least</em> another four months before departing for college – time enough for this one to self destruct!</p>