>>>http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2010/06/10/teen-sailor-missing-at-sea/?hpt=T2
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>>>This is no surprise to me at all - I sort of figured this was going to happen to her. Not sure how I feel about the parents letting her do it either.
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>>The parents helping/pushing her to do it.
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>>If the parents weren't behind it, she wouldn't have more than a piece of scrap wood for a boat.
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>>They may still get a reality TV show out of it - just w/o the daughter (maybe they can search for her - what a plot!).
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>I was exactly on target.
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>http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2010/06/14/sailor-abby-sunderlands-dad-signed-reality-doomed-voyage/

This is old news now, Billiam, but I still think she was ready and able to do it. Nothing wrong with parents encouraging their kids if they are doing it for the child's sake and not their own.

Did I get booted before or after the Hawks won the Stanley Cup? I think after. Too bad they have lost half the team this summer.