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Post by fairy3lf2 on Aug 11, 2006 1:05:50 GMT -5
I know many of us have speculated on what goes on behind closed doors in the idyllic town of Stoneybrook. So what kinds of scandalous secrets do you think some of Stoneybrook's "perfect" citizens are hiding? This is all in fun.
I have already suggested that Mallory may either be adopted or not Mr. Pike's biological daughter because she apparently looks so different from her siblings.
I've heard comments that David Michael was not Mr. Thomas's son (that's why he left the family).
Isn't Watson and Lisas's divorce just being finalized in Kristy's Great Idea? She already engaged so do you think Seth could have had something to do with the break up? It sounds like classic soap opera: a young wife is married to an older rich man and cheats on him with a carpenter. Do they ever say what Seth looks like? I think I remember his pictures in the Little Sister books being of an older man with a beard and glasses. Too bad.
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Post by greer on Aug 11, 2006 1:52:18 GMT -5
Maybe they were cheating on each other at the same time. Then they had a good hearty chuckle about it and that's why their divorce was amicable.
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Post by ktag on Aug 11, 2006 1:58:59 GMT -5
According to one of the LS books, she married Seth before Elizabeth entered the picture (which contradicts Kristy's Great Idea). But anyway, she met Seth because he was fixing stuff around their new house, so they didn't know each other before. But hey, doesn't mean she didn't marry Watson for his money. I'm sure she's expecting Karen and Andrew to have a big inheritence.
Mr. Schafer totally cheated.
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Post by greer on Aug 11, 2006 2:01:42 GMT -5
^IAWTC. The divorce chapter in Dawn's Portrait always suggested that implication to me.
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Post by macca on Aug 11, 2006 2:14:25 GMT -5
^ Word, to the Mr Schafer thing.
And there's not a doubt in my mind that David Michael's daddy was not Patrick Thomas. Kristy's Big News (FF #1) clinched it for me. There was one scene, where the kids were all losing it with Patrick about him walking out on the family and Patrick said something like "You kids' don't understand! I didn't have a choice. Your mother..." (words to that effect) before all three Thomas kids jumped down his throat screeching at him not to Blame Mom. But what was Patrick going to say??? And why, WHY was he almost deliberately avoiding even acknowledging David Michael's existence? Hmmm.
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Post by booboobrewer on Aug 11, 2006 2:17:46 GMT -5
I just read a Stacey book where she says something like "Around the same time some of my friend's parents divorced, my greatest fear came true -- my own parents began fighting a lot, and soon they were getting a divorce of their own." Wish I could remember what book it was because I'm sure that paraphrasing isn't doing it justice; the way it was written was really weird because it's almost implying that there were affairs involved.
I also recall thinking there were some implications in Shannon's book that Mr. Kilbourne was cheating on Mrs. Kilbourne, but I don't exactly remember why I thought that...
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Post by starrynight on Aug 11, 2006 10:35:28 GMT -5
I never got the impression that Mr. Kilbourne was cheating...I just thought that he and the Mrs. grew apart. That happens, unfortunately, and he probably just buried himself in work/social activities.
I think Abby has some kind of dark secret....I get a weird feeling about that girl.
Claudia's parents got married in hurry because they thought they were pregnant. It turned out to be a false alarm, but they never told anyone that's why they initially got married.
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Post by sotypical42483 on Aug 11, 2006 11:29:38 GMT -5
Mr. Schafer definitely cheated. In Baby-sitters Remember, Dawn's mom is all pissed off because he continually goes out ALL NIGHT with his "friends" - no grown man is going to do that. He was down the road at a motel!
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Post by booboobrewer on Aug 11, 2006 15:59:32 GMT -5
Yeah, I got that impression as well. It was just something I speculated about.
To me Mrs. Stevenson was likely the one who could be hiding something. And she always seemed kind of cold.
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Post by fairy3lf2 on Aug 12, 2006 18:15:25 GMT -5
I can't believe I forgot the one I thought since I actually read the books! Kristy's mother is said to be 37, which means she would have had Charlie when she was only 20. Her marriage to Patrick was apparently never a very happy one so I wonder if they got married just because she was pregnant.
If Patrick wasn't David Michael's father then who was? Richard? Imagine how Kristy and Mary Anne would react to that! I do think it's interesting though that Charlie, Sam and Kristy are fairly close together in age (17, 15 and 13) while there's a big gap between Kristy and David Michael (13 and 7).
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Post by greer on Aug 12, 2006 18:26:03 GMT -5
I never thought dm wasn't patrick's; I thought elizabeth had him in an attempt to make patrick stay.
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Post by macca on Aug 12, 2006 19:38:52 GMT -5
I never thought dm wasn't patrick's; I thought elizabeth had him in an attempt to make patrick stay. Elizabeth was portrayed as far too much of an intelligent 'modern woman' for that to be true. But then, I guess she married Patrick and supposedly had four kids with him (and three were by the time she was 24!) so obviously she wasn't THAT cluey. Yeah and the smart thing to do when you're in a bad marriage is keep popping out kids Ugh, I've never liked Elizabeth.
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Post by greer on Aug 12, 2006 23:57:03 GMT -5
I think she only became strong when Patrick left her. Also, the "noose" motions he did--either where he secretly visited Kristy, or when they all went to CA for the wedding, I forget--indicates that Elizabeth's controllingness was the cause for divorce, not a wandering eye.
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Post by macca on Aug 13, 2006 2:24:11 GMT -5
Yeah, I know we were supposed to think that, but I like to examine all possibilities ;D
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Post by sotypical42483 on Aug 14, 2006 14:41:31 GMT -5
If DM isn't Patrick's, then I think he is definitely the product of a one-night stand.
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