Bill: The 8tory of a TypicalCabrini8tudent

by Mike 'Spooky' McGann and Joe 'Freaky' Elliott

JENNIFER NESPOLI

I have been close with one of my friends since fifth grade. She would always be telling me throughout the years that her parents were fighting again. They were always, always fighting.

Then, just as her parents began to contemplate divorce, they would attempt to make up and bndge the gaps between them.

My friend has recently found out that the only reason her parents stayed together was "for the children."

My other friend has realized the same thing. As the youngest child in the family 1s preparing to graduate high school. her parents are knee-deep in divorce proceedings.

This angers me the most.

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coholism, depression, affairs and even violence.

Staying together does not do anything positive for the marknow each other and their situa- ried couple either. In my two tions are different, but their ex- friends' cases, it has lead to alperiences are similar and there is one common theme in both of their stories. Their parents should have gotten a divorce a long time ago.

I have had to listen to both of my friends cry on the phone to me about their parents. I love my friends and wish I could help them. But all I can do is listen. I can not decide what I am more upset with-their parents for dragging out a marriage that died years ago, or at their marriage dying.

When they married, they believed they would be together forever. I do not know what happened in the meantime, but I pray it does not happen to me. And I pray my friends can pick up the pieces of their lives when they are finally free of their parents' web of misery.

I do not know what their horizons look like now, but I do know that dawn is not far away.

JenniferNespoliis a juniormajoringin English/communication.Sheis oneof Loquitur'sfeatureseditors.

• In issue six, page 12, the letter from Ann Servey should have read, "It is okay not to drink."

• In the graphic on page 14 of issue six, the basketball team's figure was miscalculated. There are 30 members on the team and each receives $603 from the_budget.