Oprah last night

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<p>Wow, did anyone else see Oprah’s episode last night? I really wasn’t prepared for that. Basically I spent all of last night crying. So sad. I really feel bad for those families.</p>

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<p>Can you clue us in what it was about?</p>

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<p>I didn’t see the Oprah show yesterday but I went to the website <a href=“http://www2.oprah.com/tows/slide/200706/20070601/slide_20070601_284_101.jhtml[/url]”>http://www2.oprah.com/tows/slide/200706/20070601/slide_20070601_284_101.jhtml&lt;/a&gt; and read about the show. I can understand why you can’t stop crying. The imagine of the mother holding her daughter’s head after her daughter was decapitated in the accident involving a drunk driver is more than heart breaking. Another vivid reminder of why no one should drink and drive.</p>

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<p>Just reading the synopsis of the show left tears streaming down my face. I remember when the horrific accident happened, but the details are truly devastating. My heart goes out to that poor family for all they’ve gone through. </p>

<p>We lost three very close friends (two were brothers) to a drunk driver in the mid 80’s. They were in their early 20s at the time; not much older than our oldest son is now. The drunk driver was jailed for a short amount of time, released, and was almost immediately arrested for drunk driving again. After that, we lost track of him.</p>

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<p>I saw the beginning of yesterday’s show-- about a grandmother that backed her SUV over her own 4 yo grandchild and a mother who fell asleep at the wheel and 3 of her 6 kids drowned. Couldn’t watch it. Horrible. Turned it off. Was this the same show?</p>

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<p>There’s no way that I could have watched that heartbreaking show.</p>

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<p>I couldn’t watch that either
I wonder if my D did-
She often loves Oprah & I wasn’t home last night- but she was in a horrible mood this morning- when I dropped her off to take the SATs</p>

<p>I understand that discussing tragedies can be theraputic for some & that in some instances, it can help to prevent further tragedies.
But the " Im so glad it wasn’t me", which is unavoidable, makes me uncomfortable & the " they must have done something wrong", also makes me angry, because it is true- some things are accidents- and no one could have prevented or predicted them-.</p>

<p>BUt I wonder if this is why they are changing the seatbelt laws
<a href=“http://www.theolympian.com/news/story/117321.html[/url]”>http://www.theolympian.com/news/story/117321.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>Me neither, nsm. I turned it off. Horriffic.</p>