tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-88403111205092452932024-03-19T04:24:20.565-06:00How Staples tried to destroy an entrepreneur's life: Blind to Crime!Len Faucherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10827635280921110277noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8840311120509245293.post-22401776076990268332016-04-05T07:13:00.002-06:002016-04-05T07:13:53.382-06:00<div class="s3" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 1.2;">
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<span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Curtailing the cozy relationships with foreign manufacturers is the real reason why </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Romney</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> and his establishment friends are</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">vehemently against</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> Donald Trump. I had the misfortune of being the primary competitor </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">to </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Romney’s first investment</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">, Staples Inc., </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">through his Bain Capital </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">venture </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">firm. It’s a </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">complicated</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> story but Romney and his friends were able to steal my 26 store franchise operation </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">called OfficeLand</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> Inc. I</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">n the process, </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Staples’s very first CFO, Bob </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Leombruno</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">, </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">allowed me to </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">take home for a </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">night the</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> Staples </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">business plan. The Staples </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">b</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">usiness </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">p</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">lan is the model for what destroyed American </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">retailers and </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">manufactu</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">rers</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">. It was the formula as to how the </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Staples founders became billionaires</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> and </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">how they </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">continued to destroy</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">other industries. </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">It’s pretty simple but also illegal</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">. It is </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">why </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">the</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">se business predators</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> spin their story to believe that they were good business people instead of vulture capitalists as </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">they should be known. </span></div>
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<span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Back in 1985, there were over 20,000 office sup</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">ply st</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">ores in the United States. These stores</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> were family </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">owned and operated </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">and greatly contributed to the fabric of Am</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">er</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">ican society. In this single industry</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">,</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> there were over 400 American manufacturers that supplied products to these stores either directly or through wholesalers. The American office products industry was only one of many that would be destroyed by opportunist investors like Romney and his Staples Inc. partners. </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Allow </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">me</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> to</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> explain how. </span></div>
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<span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">The Staples Inc. business plan </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">contained </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">an eleven tier </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">pricing </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">structure </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">for its new stores that opened in every metro area throughout the country. </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Once open for business, Staples Inc. selected</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> one of its pricings </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">that was just under</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> what its nearby </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">competitors</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> charged its customers.</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> As the result of mill</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">i</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">ons of dollars pouring into the company from its </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">two rounds of funding</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">and its IPO, Staples didn’t care if its store</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">s </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">los</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">t</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> money</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> in its first year. </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">The purpose was to </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">attain market share and either buy them out or</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> force the</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">ir competitors </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">out of business. </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">After the competitors were </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">all </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">gone, Staples Inc. </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">initiated a new </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">schedule of </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">higher pric</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">ing which allowed its stores to </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">become</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> profitable. O</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">f course, </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">as we all know today, their plan </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">worked</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> very well. </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">However, anyone that knows the history of business will realize that </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">the Staples practice </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">was</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> also</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> illegal</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">. It</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> breaks the long-standing anti-monopoly law called the “Sherman</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> Anti-Trust </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Act”</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> of 1890. Romney and his </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">friends, now called the establishment, didn’t stop at </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">decimating</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> the thousands of </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">their</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">competitors as </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">t</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">he</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">y</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">also t</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">argeted hundreds of American manufacturers. Spread across the country, these companies were also well-respected participants in the communities they served. They supported local charities, athletic teams, and their owners were contributing members of service organizations and </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">their local Chamber</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">s</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> of Commerce. Today most of these have disappeared</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">. Some were, again, raided by Bain </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Capital </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">after bankruptcy and stripped of all its assets including employee retirement funds. Most others were </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">replaced by manufacturers in countries whose employees receive a tenth of what Americans are paid. At the same time </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">through public relations firms and </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">paid off </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">politicians, </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Americans </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">were</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> being told that we had the ability </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">to purchase these products at very low prices….</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">but were </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">we? </span></div>
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<span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">I knew this industry very well and witnessed that</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> Staples Inc. ke</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">pt</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> the old </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">list </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">prices that American</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">s </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">were used to paying when they bought American made products. </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">However, I was also keenly aware that the foreign made products cost less than 10% of American made products. </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Th</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">ese products included </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">office supplies, office furniture, and </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">office machines, </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">now</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> identified as </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">computers. </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">By</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> establishing </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">shadowy </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">distributing systems for </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">contracts</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">with Chinese and other Asian manufacturers, Staples Inc. founders kept for themselves an additional 30- 60% margin that made them billionaires. Of course, their </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">shareholders were kept satisfied by </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">also </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">realizing </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">a modest return on their investment. </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">However, it was Romney and his cunning partners that </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">am</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">as</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">sed</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> most of the profits. </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">These self-centered arrangements, </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">harmful to </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">e</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">very American, </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">continue to expand </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">in almost </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">all industries </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">today. God forbid anyone that may try to end this despicable practice. As </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">the establishment continues to convince us that their activity is good for America, </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Bain and other venture capital firms </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">endeavor to pursue th</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">e Staples Inc. model by </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">rewarding company CEOs to move their companies </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">to </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">poor economy </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">countries. </span></div>
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<span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">The </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">establishment wants us to believe that we should be happy about </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">perceived </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">lower pricing. However, when there </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">are</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> no American manufacturers left in the country, the prices </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">of their products </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">will remain the same, </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">leaving fewer Americans with jobs and the ability to</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> pay for them. </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">If Americans don’t reverse this self-inflicting painful experience,</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> our country </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">will become another Mexico or China. What happened in the mid-west and in Detroit will happen to almost all American cities. </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Romney</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">and </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">the </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">establishment </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">of our country simply do not care as they only have allegiance to themselves. </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">As we learned </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">from</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> his past political exploits, Romney is only looking out for his own best interest and helping</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> his fellow billionaire friends and the media they control. </span></div>
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<span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Your Congressmen and Senators all saw this coming and w</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">e</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">re </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">corrupted by the wealth of the powerful establishment. They looked the other way while millions of Americans </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">became</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">financially raped by those with tremendous greed. As we’ve all been ignored by those that we’ve elected to represent </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">us, </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">perhaps it will take a</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">nother </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">American minded billionaire to </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">bring back common sense to our economic system. </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">America has little time left before we lose all our assets. </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">In my opinion we should all </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">ignore </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">the useless noise of this presidential campaign and get back to</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> understanding</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> the basics of our economy. </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">It is time to </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">reject the typical politicians</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">,</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> most of whom are lawyers, and </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">elect someone who unquestionably </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">understands business</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">and truly loves </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">the </span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">America</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> I remember</span><span class="s2" style="line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">….Donald Trump. </span></div>
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<span class="s5" style="font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Introduction: This is a condensed short story of an </span></span><span class="s5" style="font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">on-line </span></span><span class="s5" style="font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">article written earlier entitled “The Carnage of Staples Inc”</span></span><span class="s5" style="font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">,</span></span><span class="s5" style="font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">identifying the hope of one of this Superstore’s victims. </span></span></div>
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<span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Several years after Lynn Crocker </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">was prevented to enter the Fuller State Hospital in Attleboro, Massachusetts </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">in 2001</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">,</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> this moth</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">er of four died at the age of</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> 41</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">.</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> Ten years earlier,</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">my</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">corrupt family </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">and greedy</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> franchise owners aided </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">the </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">secret acquisition of my 26 store OfficeLand franchise chain by the ruthless </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">founders of Staples Inc.</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"></span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Resigning my employment as a teacher in Needham, Massachusetts, I worked tirelessly to develop the first office products</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> franchise </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">chain in the country. T</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">hese new and modern office supply computer stores were </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">located </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">in </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">all </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">New England states</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> and their continued growth would have given me the financial strength to, again, be able to have contact with my two beautiful daughters. </span></span></div>
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<span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">My siblings and mother already had a </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">covert </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">motive for helping Staples Inc. take over my franchise chain. </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">For years</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">,</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> I </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">had joint custody of my two daughters, Lisa and Kim, </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">until </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">the</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">y became young teenagers. </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">After suffering </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">through </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">shock therapy in her second marriage</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">,</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">my ex-wife </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">and </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">mother of my d</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">aughters </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">married a third time to Jon Gilbert. Informing me that </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">her </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">new husband came from a very wealthy family, she wanted me to allow my daughters to be adopted </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">by him and I said absolutely no</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">!</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">After being denied my visiting rights with my daughters, for</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">several years </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">I </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">vigorously </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">battled </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">with my ex-wife </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">in Court</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">. </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Finally, my attorney arranged a compromise </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">permitting </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">my daughters </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">to </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">use </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">the</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> last name of their </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">new step father</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; 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line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">,</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">I’ve never been allowed any contact </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">with </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">the girls I very much loved. </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Attempting to earn a great amount of money for legal expenses became </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">my</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> primary reason for leaving education and </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">entering the business world. </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">To my surprise</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">,</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> it was not until the year 2010, </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">that </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">I learned </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">that my entire </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">family </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">took cash </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">bribes offered to each of them</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> by my ex-wife and her husband. My </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">corrupt </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">family’s </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">loyalty to me</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">, the oldest </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">son </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">in our family,</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">was compromised by their own greed and jealousy which I never suspected. </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">O</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">f course</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">,</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> now I realize why they all asked me for jobs at OfficeLand. </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">My family </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">also knew that a successful </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Off</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">i</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">ceLand </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">franchise chain, which was close to happening, would give me </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">immense </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">financial resources</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> and allow </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">me </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">to take back my daughters.</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Because of their alliance with my ex-wife, t</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">hey couldn’t</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> let that happen</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">. It was </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">why they secretly conspired with my a</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">rch-competitor, Staples Inc.</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">, a</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">nd in the process, rewarded thems</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">elves with even more money than </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">their earlier scheme. </span></span></div>
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<span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">The success of the secret acquisition </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">of OfficeLand Inc. </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">was personally managed by </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">the founders of </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Staples Inc.</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> They were the </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">late Tom Stemberg and their first major investor, Mitt Romney via his new investment company, Bain Capital. It was Mitt Romney’s personal attorney, Jeff Stein</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> at Hale and Dorr</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> of Boston</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">,</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> who</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">also represented </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Staples Inc. Stein simultaneously </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">represented my company, OfficeLand Inc. </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">It was Jeff Stein</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">and Romney that </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">created the legal maze for the </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">charlatan a</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">cquisition. </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">However, beyond the ruthless business deal that </span></span></div>
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<span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">significantly</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> benefitted Staples Inc., there was a personal attack on one of my franchise owners</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">. </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">In 1990, </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Lynn Crocker </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">purchased </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">the </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">very</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> last </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">OfficeLand </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">franchise just before the secret acquisition.</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> Unlike the other </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">franchise own</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">ers</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">,</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> she did not know of the conspiracy </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">as she had still been in training with me. T</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">he attack </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">by Staples Inc. on Lynn </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">was </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">horrific.</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">However, it would be her children who also would bear the brunt of her attack many years later. </span></span></div>
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<span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">I</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">n 1991, the same year of the secret acquisition by Staples Inc., and a year after </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Lynn Crocker </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">opened her new OfficeLand store in Sanford, Maine, </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Lynn </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">came to me asking for help. Not knowing how</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> or why</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">, she explained that her husband had closed her successful store. </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">S</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">he also</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> told me </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">of </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">taking </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">much </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">verbal and physical </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">abuse from her husband</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">. As the result</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">, she filed for divorce and was awarded joint custody of her </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">four </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">children. </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Her plea for my help </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">came at</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> the exact time </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">my once</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> very sedate and relatively affluent life became turbulent and disastrous. </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Erroneously believing</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> that it was the bad economy in 1989 that slowed down my franchise growth, my </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Hale & Dorr </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">attorney</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">,</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Jeff Stein</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">,</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> helped me plan </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">a merger with a public company. However, that </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">endeavor </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">immediately</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">came to a halt after </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">my franchises were </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">advised </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">by my</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> M</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">erger and Acquisition </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">attorney</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">, David Sharpe, </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">to stop paying their </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">essential </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">royalties</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> to OfficeLand Inc. I had just moved from Shrewsbury, MA to </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">a new executive home in </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Londonderry, NH in order to bring my wife closer to her family in nearby Manchester</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">. This move was to </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">help save our fragile marriage</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">. However, </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">I didn’t realize that </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">my wife </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">was also involved with my family’s plot</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> which began years earlier</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">. </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">From my son, years after, I learned that my family had convinced my wife that I was having an affair with a potential employee that lived in Florida which was an absolute lie. A</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">fter we moved to</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> Londonderry</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">, my</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> bi-polar wife </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">shockingly </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">filed for divorce and bankruptcy at the same time</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">. I found out that she used very </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">expensive Philadelphia lawyers</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> to do so. </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">T</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">hrough </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">my</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> Manchester lawyer,</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> Jennifer Rood,</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">I</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> was able to convince the Court </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">to</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> not </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">plac</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">e</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> me into </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">bankruptcy</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">. Years later</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">, I</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> discovered that </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">my ex-wife</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> also had withdrawn her</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"></span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">own </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">motion for bankruptcy. I owed very little money to </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">anyone and the only reason for her efforts to place me in bankruptcy was to prevent me </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">from ever franchising again. </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Out of money from payments to lawyers, </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">my family members and even </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">my mother refused to allow me to </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">temporarily live with her. </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">This</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">forc</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">ed</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> me to live in </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">an</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> old warehouse as a homeless person. </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">I </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">well</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> –remember one winter evening thinking to myself as to how a man who was a teacher with a Masters Degree, never drank or did drugs, could find himself in such a terrible mess. I only had my car and a trunk full of possessions to my name. From the high of being selected as New Hampshire’s Business Person of the year</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">, and being written about in </span></span><span class="s10" style="font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Success Magazine, </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">it was unfathomable that I was </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">absolutely bro</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">ke and homeless all in one year</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">. </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">The only person I could talk to was Lynn Crocker</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> who had moved to Manchester</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> from her home in Wells, Maine</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">. </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">H</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">owever, she </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">was as equally confused about her life</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> as I was. </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Fortunately, a wonderful mentor </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">also </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">came into my life</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">. He </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">was Dr. Basil </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Henriques</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> of Lynn. He gave me cash </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">and the mental strength to start over again in return for helping him in a business that he was starting. </span></span></div>
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<span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Desperate for any employment, </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">I took a job with </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">an office supply </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">company </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">out of Boston who asked me to open a new office </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">in</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> South</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> Portland</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">, Maine. </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Lynn agreed to join me and return to </span></span></div>
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<span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Maine</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">,</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> which was also closer to where her husband lived</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> a</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">nd </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">shared custod</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">ial responsibilities. </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">In getting to know Lynn, </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">we</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">began living together in a rented home in York Beach</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">.</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">During that time</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">,</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">I </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">also </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">began to really enjoy all </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Lynn’s </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">four children. Lynn also got a</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> new </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">sales </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">job</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> covering s</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">outhern Maine</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">for another Boston based office supply company. Not long after</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> we were in York Beach, </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Lynn had </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">another C</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">ourt battle with her ex-husband</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">. This time he r</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">etained </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">a </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">very </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">prominent and </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">expensive lawyer</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> from Kennebunk. </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">To my</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> surprise</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Lynn lost</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> custody of all </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">her </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">four children. This </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">event sent </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">her into extreme depression</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">. In my opinion, </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">the Court’s decision made no sense as </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">she was a wonderful and caring mother. This </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">horrible </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">finding</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> added to </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">a</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">previous psychological damage </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">for Lynn </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">resulting in </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">immense depression</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">. Shortly after</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> the Court’s decision</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">, </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Lynn </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">r</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">egretfully</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"></span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">informed me</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> that</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">, for the “good of her kids”</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">, </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">she</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> decided </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">to </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">return to her abusive </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">ex-</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">husband</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">.</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"></span></span></div>
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<span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Having moved back to Massachusetts, i</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">t was only </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">a</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> few months later that I was told by her sister that </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Lynn</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> needed </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">my </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">help as </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">she</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">had committed herself to the </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Biddeford State Hospital. This was a mental health institution for the most severe of Maine residents. </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">The history of</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> Lynn’s personal life </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">was equally horrendous</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> and complicated her decision making process. </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"></span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">A year or two after we met, s</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">he told me </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">that she had been the subject of incest by her father since the death of her mother when she was ten years old. After </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">she told me</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">,</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">I made </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">an </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">appointment for Lynn to see a psychiatrist in Biddeford. While he counseled Lynn</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">, he</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> also told me that her mental illness was </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">so bad</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> that “…she would never be able to have a normal relationship with a</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">ny</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> man”. </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">In Biddeford</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">,</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> I was reluctant to remove her from her hospital. However, she expressed immense fear of her nearby husband taking control over her life. </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">After begging me to sign her out of Biddeford</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">,</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> I agreed. </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">I</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">t </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">then </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">became </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">my goal to have her admitted to a Massachusetts state hospital</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">. B</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">ecause I had </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">also </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">been a certified Special Needs teacher in Massachusetts</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">, I</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> was aware that </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Massachusetts had the finest </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">quality mental health care in the country. </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Unfortunately, I was in complete denial about my family’s involvement in the conspiracy and their on-going effort of keeping Lynn from being in contact with me. </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">It was</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">a very cold </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">evening that we left Bid</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">d</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">eford</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> for Massachusetts. </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"></span></span></div>
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<span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">N</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">ot knowing where to take Lynn next, we stayed one night in a cheap motel in Portsmouth. I made a few calls to people I knew but there was no one that wanted to get involved. Finally, my 16 year old son who was living with his mother</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">offered the home of a friend of my family in Attleboro who agr</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">eed to te</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">mporarily take her in. It was on the trip from Portsmouth to Attleboro that Lynn tried to tell me more about what happened to her </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">store </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">while at her </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">ex-husband’s </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">home but I refused to allow her to discuss business. </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">This turned out to be a big mistake. </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"></span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">I could see that </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Lynn w</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">as weak and not in very </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">good condition. </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">She even asked me to marry her as soon as possible. However, I knew it was only to be able to be with someone who would help her get her kids again. </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">I explained that</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> before she could think of marriage, </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">she very much needed </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">quality </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">mental health</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> care and be strong enough to permanently have her children. Today, these were sad moments </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">for me </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">to remember as she was </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">very </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">excited about being able to obtain the mental health care that I recommended and she very much wanted. </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Lynn </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">knew she was ill and </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">wanted to be well for her kids. We arrived in Attleboro and Lynn was exhausted. We immediately put her to bed in the makeshift basement room that was prepared </span></span></div>
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<span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">for</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> her.</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> I returned to Waltham where my mother lived and was confronted by many curious questions. </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">A</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">fter a complete mental breakdown while visiting </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Lynn </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">the next day, I brought her to </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">the Sturdy Memorial Hospital </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">also in Attleboro. Hours later</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">,</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> she </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">was transferred to Corrigan State Hospital in Fall River </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">where she remained </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">for th</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">ree months. On two occasions</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">,</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> I was allowed to visit her and </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">personally me</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">e</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">t with her doctors</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">. I also h</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">elped them </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">plan</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> for</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">“</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">long-term</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">”</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> mental health care at Fuller State Hospital, also in Attleboro. </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">While asking and obtaining </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">limited “help</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">” from</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> my family, instead of facilitating</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> her entrance to </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Fuller,</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">they prevented</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">it. </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">As I’ve stated, </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">i</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">n Fall River </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">t</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">he doctor</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">s</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">ordered and arranged for her </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">long term mental health </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">at Fuller</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">. H</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">owever, </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">upon arrival </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">she was refused to be allowed to register</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">.</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"></span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Instead </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Lynn was taken by my family </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">friend </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">and kept from ever seeing me again. I am now aware that </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">my family and their friend </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">were working for </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">the very powerful founders of Staples Inc. </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">and</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"></span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">took full control of </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Lynn. </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Ignoring the </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">doctor</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">s</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> at </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Corrigan who</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"></span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">would </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">only released her for long term </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">care,</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> they </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">kidnapped </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">her and </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">never allowed her any mental health care…all to make sure she did not have contact with me. </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Had she done so, she would have undoubte</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">dly</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> told me what she had learned while living for two months with her ex-husband. I would have </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">known </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">of the conspiracy to steal my stores and would have prevented it as well.</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">I believe that m</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">y OfficeLand stores would have been the “Ace Hardware” in the office products industry</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> today</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">. </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"></span></span></div>
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<span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Reflecting back years later, Staples Inc. was successful by </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">prevent</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">ing </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">me </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">from </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">not being able to see </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Lynn </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">again.</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> Lynn also learned from </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">her ex-husband </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">w</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">hat happened to her </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">own </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">OfficeLand store that she completely </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">operated without his involvement. </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">This was </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">her </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">store that </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">she </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">told me would pay for her kid’s college education</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">. </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">S</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">he never had </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">the opportunity, herself, to go to college</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">. G</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">rowing up in her poor Appalachian style community of Industry, Maine, she very much </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">valued </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">education and wanted it for all her kids. </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">She </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">reluctantly took me to her Central Maine home and I witnessed, myself, the tar paper shack she grew up in. She told me the stories of deer jacking, and g</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">r</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">owing pot undetected by the government</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">. This was one of the </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">means of income</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> in this very poor community</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">. </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">In </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">a </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">book </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">given to me by Lynn’s </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Biddeford </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">doctor, </span></span><span class="s10" style="font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">The Beans of Egypt, </span></span><span class="s10" style="font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Maine</span></span><span class="s10" style="font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">, </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">by Carolyn Chute,</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> it reinforced </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">the typical life style of her poor neighbors </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">and </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">why no one reports incest </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">in c</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">entral</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Maine. It is b</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">ecause many are products of </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">this very devious behavior </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">and </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">“ …</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">even the police are children of incest” Lynn emphasized. Of course, this </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">activity </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">was many years ago and, hopefully, has changed.</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> To a suburban Boston Catholic high school graduate, her life and </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">the afflicted </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">“support group” around her were a complete shock to me</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">. This event </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">made me want to help her even more. It was her franchise that she enjoyed and worked so hard to grow that would have allowed her kids to go to college. However, he</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">r husband </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">secretly took all the large amount of cash </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">from </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">her store </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">sale to Staples inc. </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">and left her nothing. </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">That </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">selfish </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">act </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">prevented her kids from the success she so much wanted for them. 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<span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Having sent out</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> my October 18, 2015</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">,</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> article</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">to</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> as many people I knew</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">, </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">I was contacted by one of Lynn</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">’</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">s sons. Chris Crocker now </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">33</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> was the second oldest son and probably the most intelligent</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">. </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">For the past two months</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">,</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> I’ve had</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> frequent </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">contact with Chris who has had</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> a </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">very difficult time dealing with the realities of his life. His first e-mail to me after we talked was:</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> </span></span></div>
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<span class="s11" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">( 5</span></span><span class="s11" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> )</span></span></div>
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<span class="s11" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">On Wed, Jan 6, 2016 at 6:36 AM, Chris Crocker wrote</span></span><span class="s11" style="background-color: white; font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">:</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"><br /></span></span><span class="s12" style="font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">I'm glad we had a chance to talk. </span></span><span class="s12" style="font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">I’ve</span></span><span class="s12" style="font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> been researching a lot the last few hours. I </span></span><span class="s12" style="font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">don’t</span></span><span class="s12" style="font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> really sleep much. All my life </span></span><span class="s12" style="font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">I’ve had to watch friends with parents that </span></span><span class="s12" style="font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">lovee</span></span><span class="s12" style="font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> them, and support them. I believe with all my soul that had I had my Mom I would be changing the world today. I have never found any true limitations to my capabilities, but a life alone and without support took its toll on me. My mom would be ashamed of how short </span></span><span class="s12" style="font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">ive</span></span><span class="s12" style="font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> fallen from the man I could </span></span></div>
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I barely see my son </span></span><span class="s12" style="font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">because</span></span><span class="s12" style="font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> I </span></span><span class="s12" style="font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">cant</span></span><span class="s12" style="font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> afford it, and am probably ten thousand dollars in child support debt. I am behind on rent even though its only 50 a week to sleep on the floor. </span></span><span class="s12" style="font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Im</span></span><span class="s12" style="font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">dependent on Marijuana to prevent my anxiety from killing </span></span><span class="s12" style="font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">me,</span></span><span class="s12" style="font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">and that takes nearly all my retirement every month. </span></span><span class="s12" style="font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Im</span></span><span class="s12" style="font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> a divorced 33 year old man without a car, home, any money at all, that doesn't see or support his own kid. </span></span><span class="s12" style="font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Ive</span></span><span class="s12" style="font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> dishonored my father publicly and disowned my family leaving me entirely alone in this world. </span></span><span class="s12" style="font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Im</span></span><span class="s12" style="font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> not emotional about it, I just have to accept what is. </span></span><span class="s12" style="font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Im</span></span><span class="s12" style="font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> not sure why </span></span><span class="s12" style="font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">im</span></span><span class="s12" style="font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> telling you all this.</span></span><span class="s12" style="font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> I can tell you </span></span><span class="s12" style="font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">this,</span></span><span class="s12" style="font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> I am a man of passionate conviction in anything I choose to do. After 15 years I find out my Mom didn't hate me, and in fact she was the only family that may have loved me and she is gone. </span></span><span class="s12" style="font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Its</span></span><span class="s12" style="font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">a lot to process, and </span></span><span class="s12" style="font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Ill</span></span><span class="s12" style="font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> let you </span></span><span class="s12" style="font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">now</span></span><span class="s12" style="font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> how I choose to proceed. </span></span><span class="s12" style="font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">im</span></span><span class="s12" style="font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">sorry for rambling. Have a great day Len, I believe you to be a good man, and </span></span><span class="s12" style="font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Im</span></span><span class="s12" style="font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> sorry I was led to believe otherwise. </span></span><span class="s12" style="font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">regardless</span></span><span class="s12" style="font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> of what the future holds, </span></span><span class="s12" style="font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Im</span></span><span class="s12" style="font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> glad that you were </span></span><span class="s12" style="font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">thee</span></span><span class="s12" style="font-size: 12px; font-style: italic; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">for my Mom, and even if it didn't end well I thank you for trying to help her</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">.</span></span></div>
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<span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">When reading </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Chris’s e-mail in his own words</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">,</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> readers, hopefully, will capture an underlying message. The people I have been dealing with have little regard for the psychological damage they do when they impose their thirst for money over the long-term welfare of children. In this case, it was more important to Chris’s father to unjustly steal from his family a large sum of money than to give his children a life time of security. As you can read, Chris was told that his mother never loved him when in actuality she adored all her children. Look what the lies did for Chris and, also, for his siblings who we’ve not heard from. </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Yes, the same applies to my two beautiful daughters. To justify my corrupt family’s theft of my franchise sto</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">res and walk away, as they have with millions of dollars,</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> they needed to create a terrible image of me. I often ask myself, “</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">why</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">don’t these matu</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">re young ladies contact me now?”</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> The answer is obvious and much similar to what Chris experienced for many years. We know that prisoners of the worst character are able to see their children. </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">G</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">uilty of nothing, a business person, adjunct professor, absent of all dependencies, loves young people,</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">and </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">a man </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">happily marri</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">ed to a very intelligent woman</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">, I</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> am </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">unable to have any information or conta</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">ct with the daughters</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> I</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> loved</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> since 1982. </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"></span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Great,</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">t</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">hey</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">’ve </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">got my money, but in the process</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> it </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">is</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"></span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">obvious that they had little consideration for </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">the </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">harm d</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">one to </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">my daughters? </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Taking children away from any parent is especially damaging to the children. </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">It is my belief that harming children is the greatest sin of all</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">. Y</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">et </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">some in </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">our society </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">are </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">so materially conscious</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">, </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">unsuspecting ch</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">ildren cannot defend themselves. They </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">b</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">ecome </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">the easiest target for bad people to prey upon. </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">For Chris </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Crocker</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">,</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">there has been </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">little </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">help.</span></span></div>
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<span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Subsequent discussions with </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Chris </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">revealed </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">that all his siblings were told that their mother didn’t love them.</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> Chris explained that even when his father had full custody of all four children</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">,</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"></span></span></div>
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<span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">he</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> showed them little attention. As</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">the result of thei</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">r mother’s motorcycle accident and death</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> in 2001</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">, Chris’s</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> father represented all four children </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">in Court </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">and </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">received a large </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">“wrongful death” </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">insurance settlement. </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">As the result</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">,</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> he purchased a new swimming pool for his home. After attending </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">two years of college which </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Chris </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">paid for </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">from </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">serving in the army, </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Chris ran out of tuition money. His </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">father offered no help. </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">D</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">espite </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">years of </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">desperation</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">, </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">there has been no </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">assistance </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">or empathy for Chris’s </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">s</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">it</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">uation</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">with the exception of a good family that have allowed him to remain with them instead of being on the street. </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">There is little doubt in my </span></span></div>
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<span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">mind that all the efforts that Chris’s mother were making to improve the lives of her children were </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">halted </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">for </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">only one reason…greed on the par</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">t of many. </span></span></div>
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<span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Chris also told me that </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">aft</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">er Lynn </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">was with </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">me, she took a job at Towhill Office Products in Boston and remembers visiting his mother at their Boston warehouse. What Chris was unaware of was that, at the time of his visit, Towhill was completely owned by Staples Inc. You might ask how I knew that fact. It was Towhill that I also worked for in Maine while living with Lynn</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">. I</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> watched its closing and my departure </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">from the company </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">when Staples purc</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">hased the firm. This meant that</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">, instead of being admitted to the Fuller State Hospital as the doctor at Corrigan</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">ordered, </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Lynn </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">became </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">employed by Staples inc. Chris also told me that she married again to someone in Massachusetts that he did not like and divorced shortly after. Given her severe mental health disability, only long-term mental health care was prescribed</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> by her doctor</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">…not marriage. </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Eventually</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">, she ended up livi</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">ng next</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> door </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">to her ex-husband again, in Wells. </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">I have no doubt she would do anything to be near her children and </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">managed to do so by working for McIsaac Office Furniture which</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">, of course, </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">was </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">another Staples </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Inc. </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">owned office products company.</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"></span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Staples Inc. controlled </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">all</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> Lynn Crocker’s </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">movements</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">,</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> serving to make sure she had no further contact with me</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">. </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">M</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">any people </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">knew</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">she belonged in a long term mental health facility</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> but that would </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">significantly </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">compromise </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Staples</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">’s very effective </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">conspiracy. Of course</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">, </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">I also learned that she again re-married</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> a third time. However, in </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">c</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">entral Maine common law marriage is as prevalent as legally </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">being married, l</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">eaving me wondering about her </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">last </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">marriage to </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">David McIntyre. He was the man that drove the motorcycle and was </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">severely injured in the</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> horrible </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">accident that killed Lynn. </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">In talking with him</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> last year, </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">I </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">became aware that David and </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">his family were kind to Lynn and, at the time o</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">f</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> her death, arranged the burial plot for Lynn and Lynn’s unborn daughter</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> very far up in Lincoln, Maine</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">. I thank them for giving </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Lynn and her unborn daughter </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">a resting place </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">when no one else would help. </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">McIntyre </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">strangely </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">identified Lynn as being promiscuous and being </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">unduly </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">violated by her ex-husband. When I asked </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Davi</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">d</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">who the father was of </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Lynn’</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">s </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">unborn </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">baby</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">, </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">he could not answer. </span></span></div>
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<span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">In preventing Lynn from obtaining the mental health care she very much wanted, </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">there was is no doubt </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">that Staples Inc. wanted </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">to make sure she had no contact with me</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">. </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">I believe th</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">at the Staples </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Inc. caused </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">mental and physical</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">harm</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> to </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Lynn Crocker </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">which led</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> to more reckless and continued abuse </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">while not being hospitalized.</span></span></div>
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<span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Of course, Staples Inc. is a corporation. Behind the</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> flaming</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> red and white sign</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">, however, </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">were the founders of this ruthless co</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">mpany</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">. They very much knew who I was at OfficeLand and did everything they could do to destroy me. Like war, Stemberg and Romney </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">were indifferent to </span></span></div>
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<span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">the</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">human casualties they left behind as they </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">were obsessed </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">of expanding </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">their business </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">at any cost. </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">M</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">y family</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> and </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">my franchise owners</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">knew exactly what they were doing and were eagerly willing to sacrifice </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Lynn’s </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">life</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> and the future of her </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">children </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">in order to acquire the riches they subsequently attained. </span></span></div>
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<span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Through my last article, </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">I reached out to </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">many people</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> about </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Lynn. Several individuals </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">came forward </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">with ideas </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">to help. </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">To some of those people I updated </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">them w</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">ith the contact I </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">had </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">received from Chris. I</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">t was my wife’s sugge</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">stion that we fulfill </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Chris’s greatest need and that was a used car to get back and forth from a new job he was offered. N</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">o</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">w</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> Chris </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Crocker </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">has a </span></span></div>
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<span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">full-time</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> job</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">. </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">I’m in </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">frequent </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">contact with him and </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">keep </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">remind</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">ing </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">him that his mother absolutely did love him. </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">His attitude and </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">ambition is in gear and his depression is </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">lessening</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">. He</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">’s told me that he </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">wants to someda</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">y finish his college education and become a lawyer. We hope he can. </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">However, only time </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">will tell </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">as Chris will have three choices available to him. They are:</span></span></div>
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<span class="s13" style="font-family: "symbol"; font-size: 20px; line-height: 24px;">• </span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Choose to allow the same individuals that destroyed his mother take control of him</span></span></div>
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<span class="s13" style="font-family: "symbol"; font-size: 20px; line-height: 24px;">• </span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Have the internal strength to maintain self-discipline and exponentially build his character</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> and </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">attain his goal. </span></span></div>
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<span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Enabled by my corrupt family, t</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">his human interest story </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">is a dramatic </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">and despicable </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">event caused by the founders of Staples Inc. Some people have told me that “</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">…</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">it’s all part of doing business”. That simply is not true for good companies and their owners.</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">As I do, m</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">any professors </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">teach “Business Ethics” in college</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">. In </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">every text book</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">,</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">we ask our students to be reminded of their </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">moral </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">responsibilities to those around them. </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">The theft of my OfficeLand franchise stores by Staples Inc. </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">and using </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">my own family members </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">to do </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">so</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">,</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">crossed the line </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">and w</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">as</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">illegal and </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">un</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">ethical. However, Staples </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">I</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">nc. also intentionally </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">facilitated </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">the demise of </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">one of </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">my franchise owner</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">s</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">. They arranged </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">that she lose custody of her children, prevent</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">ed </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">her from receiving life threatening mental health care, and then ma</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">de </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">sure that she could only work for </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">them, </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Staples </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">I</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">nc. </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">This falls far beyond unethical as I identify it as criminal and</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">immoral behavior</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> on the part of</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> Staples Inc., </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">their </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">founders, and </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">their </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">current management </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">team</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">. This includes </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">their long-time CEO, Ron </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Sargent</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">,</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> who continues to cover </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">up their hideous </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">crime</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">. Staples Inc. should be vilified </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">in </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">the court of public opinion and directly held responsible for their reckless actions. </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Lynn certainly paid the price of the Staples conspiracy. Now that </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Staples Inc. is a</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">t</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">t</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">empting to execute </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">a </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">multi</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">-</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> billion dollar p</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">urchase of </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Office Depot, they should be mindf</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">ul of the fact that it was Lynn</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">‘s life and dreams </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">of sending her children to college </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">that</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> was denied</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> by Staples Inc. </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"></span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Her </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">unwilling </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">sacrifice helped Staples Inc. dominate the office produ</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">cts</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> industry</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> today</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">. </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Staples</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"> I</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">nc. owes it to her children and grand children a </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">compensatory </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">solution to the problem they created. </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"></span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Ron </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Sargent</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;"></span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">should know that </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">there is little regard today for corporate leaders and their billionaire founders to take advantage of </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">middle-class citizens as Staples has done. </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Ron </span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"><span class="bumpedFont15" style="font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 21.600000381469727px;">Sargent</span></span><span class="s9" style="font-size: 12px; 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<b><span style="font-family: "Myriad Pro","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">You might
have known me through my educational experience, business relationship, or
perhaps you’ve never heard of me. This article describes the loss of my company
and, most importantly, the absence of having any contact with my daughters
since 1982. While I’ve sent them many birthday cards, gifts, and letters over
the years, I have not received any response, or my letters were returned. I
even hired a private detective to confirm their addresses but those have turned
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<b><span style="font-family: "Myriad Pro","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">This is
an article that I prefer to have not written. As the Irish part of my family
say “…don’t air your dirty linen”.
However, the circumstances are such that I absolutely must let as many people
know about what has happened to my children as they are, unquestionably, the
victims of a combination of lies, and fraud. Having been a former public school
teacher and, also, a current adjunct professor, I love kids especially my own.
It is for this reason that I ask you to help me spread this article to those
that you know. I am sure each one of you would take every measure possible if a
similar misfortune occurred in your life. It is extremely important that my
daughters know that their real father loved them, never abandoned them, and
took every measure to reveal the truth of what made them the innocent victims
of the conspiracy that you will, hopefully, read.<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Myriad Pro","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">In the back woods town of West Newfield, Maine, on September 3, 2001, a
horrific motorcycle accident left Lucille McIntyre brain dead and her husband,
David, badly injured. A mother of four, Lynn, as she was called, died several
months later at a health care facility in Kennebunk. Her death terminated over
a decade of both physical and mental abuse directed towards her by her first
husband and those that would financially benefit from her untreated mental
health issues. Caught up in the battle of revealing the conspiracy of how my
franchise chain, OfficeLand Inc., was secretly stolen by my arch competitor,
Staples Inc., Lynn became expendable. As you read my story, the battle was part
of a war that took place over many years with several fronts, connecting important
factors of who I was and who I could have been in the office products industry.
In April of 2015, my wife and I read interesting statements in the Staples Inc.
posting in Wikipedia. Identified as Staple’s first acquisition it read as
follows:”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Myriad Pro","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">• In 1991: OfficeLand, Inc,
under great controversy, Staples purchased OfficeLand’s 23 stores.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Myriad Pro","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">In the Spanish version of
Wikipedia the information is better defined. It reads: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Myriad Pro","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">• In 1981, Staples acquired
OfficeLand, Inc. a franchise with 23 stores. The purchase was made in secret,
involved only the board without notifying the owners or investors of the
franchise. This fact was brought to court and requested under investigation by
the FBI in the United States.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Myriad Pro","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">If you research my past, you will find that I was the CEO of a 26-store
franchise chain called OfficeLand Inc. (Success Magazine, Beyond the Banker,
August 1991) which preceded Staples, Inc.; a very formidable competitor located
less than a mile from my headquarters in suburban Boston. The majority owners
of Staples, before it went public, were three very influential people: Leo Kahn
(first investor), Tom Stemberg was CEO, and Mitt Romney was their large scale
investor through Bain Capital. All three individuals were directly involved in
Staples’ initial success as they opened the first store only a mile from my own
office products store. Before Staples launched, I had several one-on-one
meetings with Tom Stemberg and had met Romney at their store opening. They all knew in 1986 that I was founder and
CEO of OfficeLand, as the story about my franchising of OfficeLand was featured
on the front page of Office WorldNews, the leading trade magazine in the
industry. With the help of Dr. Yao Tsung Yen and Dr. Albert Chi, formerly
Digital Computer Company IT managers, I
established a robust new computer company that distributed OfficeLand
286 computers through my stores and to customers of the Wall Street
Journal. With 26 stores already located
in every New England state, I was expanding faster than Staples, who initially
did not sell personal computers. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Myriad Pro","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Despite the great success I was having with my franchise chain, there
were storm clouds mounting. At a NOPA (National Office Products Association)
convention in Chicago I was approached by Joel Spungin, CEO of United
Stationers. A 2 billion dollar company
at the time, United Stationers was one of only two major wholesalers that
primarily supplied the over 20,000 small office supply companies in the
country. There were rumors of a deal that Spungin had made with Staples to be
the needed backup of about 17,000 special-order products that Staples didn’t
carry in their stores. If this was true, most store owners knew that the unholy
alliance between United Stationers and Staples could be fatal to them. Spungin
approached me at a cocktail party at the Hyatt Regency and angrily told me
“…you’ll never be able to franchise in the office products industry” and walked
away. Coming from a person who we were doing business with and should have been
reaching out to me for expanded new business; this was an ominous message from
the largest publicly owned office products firm in the industry. Today, the
fact is that United Stationers is the “backup” supplier to Staples throughout the
country and the 20,000 smaller office supply stores have disappeared. I am sure
many of these owners have stories of their own. To the consumer, prices have
not dropped and convenience has only declined. To have Staples as the only
office products retail store in the country would be a travesty to consumers
and an insult to anti-monopoly laws. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Myriad Pro","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Even though Staples founders were known to be extremely ruthless, I had
no idea as to how they would personally affect me.They would do anything to
eliminate the competition and anyone who could potentially stand in the way of
their corporation’s expansion. In my case, the Staples founders’ strategy
involved my sister and my mother (who worked for me at OfficeLand). It turned
out to be easy to bribe them and other family members to sabotage my leadership
of the franchise group. My sister Kathy, who I fired one month after she began
working for me, and her new husband, Robert Pereira, began a fictitious office
supply company called Office Express. My sister and her husband established a
small office in Worcester, Massachusetts in order to facilitate connections to
Staples through a vendor who I knew was a close friend of Tom Stemberg’s. He
was Jerry Berberian of Berberian and Associates. Every strategic business move
I made went through the pipeline to Staples’s founders through Jerry. Starting
with my mother, the trail included my wife, and Bill Romaniecki who was a
former high school friend. Together with my brothers Steven and George, they
formed a group that reported all my moves to my sister, Kathy, and her second
husband, Bob Pereira. It was Pereira who had a Babson MBA that assisted
falsifying the legal documents to accommodate Staples lawyers. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Myriad Pro","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">In order to accomplish a disruption of new OfficeLand computer sales, my
family arranged a flood that completely destroyed my new OfficeLand computer
store in Newton Corner. This disaster was followed by a sham court case where
the insurance company refused to cover my losses and only my lawyer was paid.
Having worked many nights to transform the old basement to a new computer
training center and repair facility, I was shocked to hear my mother tell me
how the “accident” happened. As she informed me that she “heard” that the
janitor for the upstairs office (over the store) left a water faucet on over
the weekend which caused the damage. When I had asked the landlord whose
offices were above my new store, he denied knowing how the damage occurred.
When I pressed my mother for a more detailed explanation, she said nothing more.
The loss was huge as it destroyed both the store and the many boxes of new
computers that had just arrived from Mitac International of Taipei. These
computers were destined to be delivered to both my Wall Street Journal
customers and to my OfficeLand stores. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Myriad Pro","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The destruction of my OfficeLand Computer Store forced me to move my
company headquarters to Londonderry, NH. It also required that I cancel the new
computer deal with Goldstar for half of a container of new small footprint
computers that would replace the older generation. I had issued a Letter of
Credit with Goldstar for many thousands of dollars and now I needed the money
to move our entire operation to New Hampshire. However, the cancellation of
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<span style="font-family: "Myriad Pro","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">At COMDEX in Las Vegas, where I made the arrangement with the Korean
company, Goldstar, for a new replacement
computer there was a gentlemen
that was listening to our conversation. At the conclusion of my meeting,
BenyAlegrem asked if we could meet to discuss a future partnership in
computers. Explaining he was the CEO of CalAbco of Woodland Hills, CA, he
stated that he, too, wanted the same computer and would split the container
with me. This would save me a good amount of cash. After several visits and a
number of meetings with Beny, we both agreed to co-market the same computer but
under two different names. East of the Mississippi, I would market the computer
under the OfficeLand name and west of the river, it would be under the new name
Beny was giving it…. Packard Bell. Slowing the delivery of my computers to
Massachusetts, Goldstar was also in a labor dispute with its employees. Needing
the cash for my New Hampshire transition to New Hampshire, I withdrew my bank
LC. Packard Bell sold more computers than IBM or any other personal computer.
Not too many years after, I saw Beny’s picture on the front cover of Fortune
Magazine having sold Packard Bell to NEC for 2 billion dollars. Today he also
owns the iconic Beverly Hills Hilton Hotel. Of course, there was also the
possibility that Beny was at the COMDEX Goldstar booth at the same moment I
was, because someone in my company told him I would be there. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Myriad Pro","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">With a new store, franchise offices, and new distribution warehouse, my
move to Londonderry, New Hampshire created a brief increase in store sales.
However, my franchise expansion significantly dropped off. I thought it was
because of the 1989 recession but I now believe that important franchise sales
leads were diverted to my wife who failed to give them to me. Because of new technology and purchasing
power, OfficeLand still continued to grow and in 1991, the NH State Chamber of
Commerce asked me to become their “Business Man of the Year”. However, I could feel
something was very wrong and suggested another recipient.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Myriad Pro","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">With little franchise growth, I knew I had to make a strategic move to
help my business. My goal was a merger with another company that would probably
help propel the growth of OfficeLand. In 1991, Staples was starting to rapidly
expand. A member of the CEO Club of Boston, I witnessed the recognition of
other large office products firms selling out to Staples for a great deal of
money. Having taken in a second round of funding, Staples was buying all the
completion. Being one the largest competitors to Staples in New England, I
wondered why they hadn’t approached me. Seriously considering a merger and
relocation of OfficeLand Inc, to Maitland, Florida, my family resisted and
worked overtime to undermine me. They told lies to my confused wife and
innocent son that I was unfaithful and having an affair with an employee. In
Florida, I inspected future office space and conditionally hired two employees.
Sam Hargrove and Susan Sunka were ready to work for me and OfficeLand
International, Inc., the new corporation which would be the result of a merger.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Myriad Pro","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Convinced that I was having an affair with Sunka and after many weeks of
depression my wife, Susan Faucher, surprisingly filed for divorce and
bankruptcy at the same time. Federal records read later, however, showed that
my wife was secretly using a Philadelphia law firm and withdrew from bankruptcy
after my lawyer was successfully able to deconsolidate the case. If successful,
her efforts would have permanently removed me from the franchise industry,
according to FTC laws. Also to my surprise, was the fact that Lynn Crocker
(Lucille McIntyre) divorced her husband and moved with two of her youngest
children to Manchester, NH. She was the only person who I could talk with
openly about OfficeLand and I began to visit her. One day, I told my 15 year
old son that I was going to visit Lynn. To my surprise, my ex-wife was with
Lynn when I arrived. Explaining my uncomfortable reason for departing Lynn’s
apartment, I turned away to leave. From the corner of my eye, I saw Susan
coming at me with a knife in her hand. She would have definitely stabbed me in
the back had I not been able to grab her and experience 10 minutes of
continuous thrashing. Lynn, in an attempt to call the police, discovered her
telephone was not working. Later she saw that the phone jack was slightly
pulled out of the receptacle. It probably happened when she went upstairs to
check on her daughter. Finally the police arrived and arrested Susan, charging
her with attempted murder that she proudly admitted. All of this was a shock to
me and my fifteen year old son. At the same time, I was under great pressure
from my son to help his mother get out of jail. Susan’s despicable activity was
also news in the local Manchester Union Leader. An Assistant NH Attorney
General called me to state that they were charging Susan Faucher with attempted
murder and wanted me to testify against her. Mistakenly trying to do what was
best for “my family”, I told him that I would not cooperate. That was a big
mistake. Instead, the Court found Susan Faucher guilty of Domestic Violence and
sentenced her to 3 months at Hampstead State Hospital which was an actual
medium security prison. As Len Jr. was only 15 years old, through his appointed
Guardian ad lidem, Mark Jewell, I was given full custody until he turned 16
years old. After turning 16, he returned to his mother. During her
incarceration, I even took my son to visit Susan. Upon her release, I helped
her locate an apartment in Londonderry and, on several occasions, took her back
and forth from the Nashua Psychiatric Clinic, as she was ordered by the Court.
Later, in 2004, when I tried to locate the news reports about the attempted
murder, I discovered that there was no record of anything having to do with
Susan Faucher and her violent attack on me. All that the District Court had was
an empty file folder dated October 21, 1991. In 2010, when my present wife
called the NH Attorney General’s office in Concord asking for any type of
report of the incident, there was none. She was also told that, if Susan
Faucher had been charged with attempted murder, there had to be a report in
Concord. It was obvious that influential people had these reports expunged. It
appears that only Attorney Mark Jewell, the former guardian ad lidem of Len Jr,
and Len Jr. knew what actually happened.
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<span style="font-family: "Myriad Pro","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">As Susan and I were married for 15 years, I could not understand how
hateful she had become. Trying to kill me was not in her character. I believed
that someone or a group of people were encouraging her to do so, but I was in
denial that my own family was involved. Looking back, for many years my mother
did not want anything to do with Susan’s family. However, only a few months
before the attempted murder, my mother invited Susan’s parents to her home in
Waltham. Keep in mind that the Staples’s Wikipedia statement talks about “The
purchase was made in secret, involved only the board without notifying the
owners or investors of the franchise. I am sure that the facts will show what
my family had discussed with me at the time, which was to add my mother and my
father-in-law to the Board. However, from my point of view that was never done
and even if it was, I was the significant majority stock holder of the
corporation which required my signature for any major change. You can be sure
that this was the reason for my mother’s meeting with people she claimed to
dislike. I am now sure that it was also the reason my bi-polar wife, joined by
her parents, was whipped into a frenzy by believing the infidelity I never had.
Following the meeting of my mother and in-laws, my in-laws began a new and
unusually close relationship with the owners of the OfficeLand of Manchester
store, Frank and Connie Catanese. They were taking action to enjoin the
assistance of all the franchisees, beginning first with Connie who I had appointed
as OfficeLand’s Regional Franchise Director representing the Northern New
England stores. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Myriad Pro","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">In 1989, I had moved to suburban Manchester from Shrewsbury, MA in order
to be close to Susan’s parents, hoping they would help curb Susan’s depression.
This seemed to start when she, weekly, traveled to receive the books from my
mother at my Newton Corner store. After dropping out of the community college,
I had taught Susan to become the bookkeeper from our home on a new Digital PDP
101 computer. I also tried to demonstrate love and respect to my wife but her
response was to remain withdrawn and, sometimes, insulting and I didn’t
understand why. From our new home in Londonderry, NH, after witnessing nothing
less than a breakdown, I called her mother for help and was told “ …you have
the problem”. I fully understand, now, what was happening as it was my mother
and sister who had been undermining me for years. My mother was angry that I
did not fulfill my high school promise to her that I would become a Catholic
priest. However, it was my sister and her Mafioso-like husband who exhibited an
obsession for great sums of money and would do anything to get it. I am now
sure that it was my mother and sister that bolstered this image of a fabricated
affair causing my wife to join their conspiracy and involve her parents and my
son in their malicious activity. However, while my mother’s motive
waspathetically religious, greed drove my devious sister, her husband, and my
brothers Tom, Stephen, and George, all of whom participated. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Myriad Pro","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">There was another very important reason as to why my family was doing
everything possible to prevent my success. After college graduation I married
an Irish Catholic woman from Watertown and we had two daughters, Lisa and
Kimberly, born in Manchester, NH in 1970 and 1971. Three years after we were
married, Maureen McEllhenny filed for divorce and we shared custody of my
daughters. McEllhenny married Bill Biswanger of Massachusetts but divorced him
shortly after their marriage. Not long after she married Jon Gilbert also of
Massachusetts. In 1974 I married Susan and we had a son, Len Jr. Having always
loved my daughters, welcomed their overnight visits, and paid my child support
payments to their mother, Maureen McEllhenny approached me with an impossible
request just before the girl’s teenage years. Telling me that her husband’s
family was very wealthy, she wanted me to agree that I should give them up for
adoption to Gilbert. Explaining that my daughters would be able to “...travel
to their homes in France and Vail, and have the best college education
possible”, I made it clear that I would always remain their father and the
answer was no. Not long after my negative response, the harassment began. Many
times I would travel the 30 miles from Shrewsbury to Waltham to pick my girls
up for their overnight visit, but they would not be there. After three separate
times of Maureen being found guilty of Contempt of Court and exhausting the
very little money I had, the Court assigned a Mrs. Brown to the case. She
assisted me in making sure I was allowed to see my daughters again. Not long
after, however, my own attorney, Robert Tennant, notified me that my daughters
had petitioned the Court to be adopted by Jon Gilbert. He was convinced that
the judge would agree with their request. Tennant suggested a compromise that
would allow the girls to have periodic visits with me each and every year until
they became adults. With no money left to fight, and no support from my own
family, I reluctantly agreed. However, for the several decades that have gone
by, I’ve never been allowed to have any contact with my daughters. While for
many, many years, I thought my own family members were supportive of my
continuous efforts to re-connect to my daughters, they were doing the opposite,
secretly preventing me from seeing them. The reason is now so obvious but
repulsive at the same time. While I could not be bought off for any amount of
money to give up my children, each and every one of my family members did. The
quid pro quo between my family and the wealthy Gilbert Family was to make sure
I would never be able to take any action to see my daughters. OfficeLand Inc.
began as the result of me leaving the very best teaching position any music
director could ever have as the Needham High School Music Director (and Special
Needs). In 1981, I learned FORTRAN, researched and learned the new world of
personal computers, accounting, and took over an outdated adding machine
company in Newton Corner. I prepared it to become the “Ace Hardware” of the
office products industry. This was my strategy, since Attorney Robert Tennant
insisted that I would have to pay him or any other lawyer $100,000 to be able
to fight the legal battle to see my daughters. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Myriad Pro","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">As in many wars, my battles were in several theaters and Lynn was the
only witness to this horrible attempted murder incident which had been erased
everywhere. Not many months after being
released from prison, although we were divorced, Susan Faucher was repeatedly
invited and attended my family’s periodic events despite my objection. It was
impossible for me to understand why my family embraced Susan after I had been
so close to being killed by her. In addition, my long time high school friend,
Bill Romaniecki, had been staying in touch with her. On one occasion my son
told me that “… Romaniecki was trying to get his mother to have me committed to
a state mental hospital”. I reassured Len Jr. that would never happen.
Obviously, I now realize that my family was trying to create distrust and
problems between Susan and me. They wanted to make sure that I would never
learn the truth about what really happened to my OfficeLand stores.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Myriad Pro","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">While Romney’s investment in Staples came through Bain Capital, it was
his personal attorney who was secretly involved with the theft of my 26 stores.
After a decade, with the help of my present wife, we discovered that my
OfficeLand’s corporate attorney was not just a member of the law firm that also
represented Staples, Inc. but, to my surprise, it was also Attorney Jeff Stein
that personally represented Mitt Romney. Attorney Jeff Stein of Hale and Dorr
was a person who I was relying on to guide me through the myriad of obstacles
put in place by Staples but, instead, he pointed me in the direction of failure
and the destruction of my once very successful store chain. Through his
contact, Joe Mays of the New York firm identified as “Securities Consulting
Group”, Stein recommended that I travel to Salt Lake City to meet with a
mergers and acquisitions company, A-Z Professional Consultants Inc. that would
eventually arrange a merger with a small public company, Members Services, Inc.
Later, we discovered that the M&A company principals had a connection to
the Gambino crime family. In fact, they are all now sitting in federal prison
for racketeering. Not long after my trip to Salt Lake City, and with the help
of another crooked M&A lawyer recommended by Stein, David Sharpe, all the
26 store franchise agreements that I turned over to him completely vanished. I hired a
Manchester, NH, attorney, Jennifer Rood, who asked Sharpe to return the
critical documents that generated large sums of royalty payments each month to
my company. He refused, stating they would be needed “…for Court”.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Myriad Pro","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">We now know, for sure, that all the OfficeLand stores were purchased by
Staples without me signing one document or receiving a penny. And it makes
great sense to me that the “Board” which consisted of me, my wife, my
father-in-law, and my mother all must have falsified documents including stock
ledgers and sold my chain for an undisclosed amount of money. I heard, before,
from two franchise owners that they did, indeed, sell out to Staples Inc. but I
never knew how. In fact, I thought that Staples Inc. may have bought them out
individually. The theft of my stores coincided with several key events; Susan
Faucher’s attempt to kill me in which she served jail time, her filing for
divorce, and a separate filing for joint bankruptcy. This was nothing less than
a pincer attack from all directions resulting in personal chaos and a depleted
bank account. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Myriad Pro","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Having completely lost OfficeLand, and with the help of Dr. Basil
Henriques, two years later I tried another technology based office products
store called Office Oasis. Having been well-known in the industry, I was able
to get about 90 manufacturers to invest over $250,000 in my office supply store
on CD. At a Chicago NOPA convention, a vice president of Xerox handed me a
check for $10,000 for placement on the Office Oasis CD. In presenting it to me,
he stated the following “ Giving this check means a great deal to me and Xerox,
as I have been told by Staples that if I have anything to do with you or Office
Oasis, they will never permit Xerox to be one of their vendors”. Not long
after, my CFO Peter Hughes resigned and I made the mistake of hiring Staples’
first CFO, Bob Leombruno. Bob was one of the authors of Staple’s Business Plan,
a document he loaned to me in order to win my trust. Planted by Stemberg into
my new operation and signing all forms of NDAs, instead of using his position
to help raise investment funding, Leombruno caused the company’s demise. It
proved, again, that Staples founders were not only behind the theft of my 26
OfficeLand stores, but were actively preventing any new efforts that I might
develop to greatly influence sales in the office supply industry and slow down
their takeover of the entire industry. Subsequent personal attacks from
Stemberg and Staples have followed me up through 2013.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Myriad Pro","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">The real tragedy and core of this story was what happened to Lynn
Crocker. My family did everything possible to keep me from having any contact
with her or even learning about her death years later.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Myriad Pro","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Lynn Mason Crocker was only 29 years old when she and her husband from
Wells, Maine, purchased an OfficeLand franchise from me in 1990. The bright new
office supply and computer store was the last OfficeLand franchise store I
sold. It was located in Sanford, Maine. While I could go into many details as
to why Lynn Crocker divorced her
husband, our common experiences brought us close together and I ended up
living with Lynn and her kids for a period of time in Wells, Maine. Lynn told
me that at the age of ten after her mother died, her father, William Mason of
the town of Industry, Maine, had sexually forced himself on her on a “daily”
basis. Her story horrified me, and compelled me to visit a very competent
psychiatrist in Biddeford, Maine, who agreed to meet us. After his consultation with Lynn, he
explained that she was so mentally ill, that she “…would never be able to have
a normal relationship with any man” as it would require many years of mental
health counseling. He also gave me the book The Beans of Egypt, Maine by
Carolyn Chute. The book abrasively explained the nature and extent of incest in
the backwoods of Maine. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Myriad Pro","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">When Lynn first divorced, she was given joint custody of her four children
and shared them, two at a time, with their father, Donald Crocker. With little
warning, in a subsequent custody hearing she was ordered to turn over all four
children to their father. To her surprise, her ex-husband changed attorneys and
retained a very well-known and, probably, expensive lawyer from Kennebunk. (I
now believe that was an attorney provided to him by Staples or someone
connected to Staples, as Lynn made it clear that they could never afford an
expensive attorney). From my perspective and as a former teacher certified in
special needs, Lynn was an exceptional mother always teaching her children the
importance of reading and balancing needed discipline with caring love. At the
time, she was fully employed by an office products company that I introduced
her. Her job allowed her to have the income needed to help raise her children.
Losing all her kids and being forced to only see them in the presence of their
father was enormously painful for her. She had previously told me that during
their marriage, her husband had been both physically and mentally abusive.
Because the children were required to return to their father’s home every day
after school, she and I moved very close to the children’s home in Wells. I
took a temporary job at a greeting card company in nearby Biddeford. However,
not long after, I heard her boys plead that Lynn return home so that they could
have Christmas together. She informed me that her ex-husband wanted her to
begin dating one of his friends. He made it clear to Lynn that she should be
with “…anyone else except for Len”. Laughing at his suggestion, she assured me
she had no interest in another man. I was a bit hurt, as I was always trying to
be a good influence with the children and dedicated myself in off-hours to help
with their school assignments. Under constant pressure from her children, Lynn
reluctantly informed me that she was returning to her husband “…for the good of
the children”. For over a year I had travelled a very difficult path with Lynn
but understood that her pain was so powerful that I simply had to with draw
from the situation. At the same time, I was alsofired for no apparent reason
from the greeting card manufacturing company. Before I departed, I saw in the
attic of the townhouse where we were living, sealed cardboard boxes with the
individual names on each box…” For Dustin, For Donald, For Chris, and For
Sarah”. This didn’t seem correct as the move was only oneblock away and left me
with the impression that Lynn was planning her own demise. It was too late for
me to do anything to prevent it. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Myriad Pro","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Closing up the home, I made arrangements to temporarily live at my
mother’s home in Waltham, Massachusetts until I could get back on my feet. That
was a short lived idea as one Friday afternoon; two of my brothers (Tom and
George) arrived at my mother’s home after my mother had called them to tell me
and my brothers that she “…had received a bomb scare”. When I asked who it was,
she explained that it was Mr. Bomber! When
I suggested that she call the police, both my mother and brothers said
“absolutely not”, as it may provoke bigger problems for her. They all agreed that I had to leave my
mother’s home as my presence was probably the reason for the bomb scare. I half heartedly agreed with them as I did
not want to place my own mother in any danger. As these were all the same
people that I gave employment, I wondered why they did not offer to help me. Of
course, I later discovered that they were part of the Staples conspiracy to
take over my stores. These family members needed to make me as weak as possible
to make sure that I never had the financial resources to take action against
them.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Myriad Pro","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">All I had to my name was my car and very little cash. In fact, my cash
was so limited I had to live in an old factory building owned by Harry Tong of
Hampshire Music. I knew the owner of this very old warehouse building located
in downtown Nashua, because I had helped my father obtain a part-time job
there, bundling and shipping out - dated sheet music to music stores all over
the country. (My father, who expressed pride of my accomplishments had been
divorced from my mother and was living in New Hampshire and would have never
been part of the conspiracy. In fact if he had known about it, he would have
immediately stopped it). The warehouse building was never heated and I had to
sleep in the walk in freezer section where I set up a cot, electric heater, and
light to ease my comfort. For about a month, I had to live as homeless person,
wondering how a person who never drank, didn’t do drugs, had no issues with the
law, and had a Master’s Degree found himself in such a terrible situation.
Nevertheless, I kept up my spirits and continued to look for a job or some way
to find a source of funds. I refused to go on welfare and had no facility to
file for unemployment.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Myriad Pro","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Fortunately, a wonderful benefactor entered my life as I was looking to
begin another business. It was a miracle
for the kind and brilliant Dr. Basil Henriques to hand me $1,000 cash, arrange
for me to have a small apartment in Woburn, MA, and allow me to begin a new
civilized life. While I began my
financial recovery, Lynn Crocker was having her own problems. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Myriad Pro","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Despite being thrown out of my mother’s home, I kept visiting my mother
as I never suspected that she would cause me harm. To my detriment I continued
talking with her about everything I was trying to do in order to bring order
back to my life. In January of 1993, my mother told me that she received a
telephone call from Lynn Crocker’s sister, Tina, who was living in Augusta,
Maine. Tina told my mother that Lynn had left her husband after Christmas and
had been confined to a public psychiatric hospital in Biddeford. According to
my mother, she was concerned that no one was doing anything to help her sister.
As a single mother with a small son, Tina was not able to help Lynn and was
looking to me for assistance. Late afternoon on a cold winter day, I drove up
from Woburn, Mass. to the Biddeford State Hospital and was allowed to see Lynn.
Happy to see me, she begged that I sign the release allowing her to leave with
me, as she did. Despite her jubilation in seeing me again, I was conscious of
what the psychiatrist told me as it was a haunting message (she would never be
able to have a normal relationship with a man). Now that she was with me, I was
unsure as to what I would do with her. Clearly, she was mentally ill and needed
help. When I was involved with special needs I knew the Massachusetts state
mental health system to be among the best in the country and felt that if I
could get her admitted facility in Massachusetts, her recovery was possible. As
she also told me, she wanted to be far away from her ex-husband, Donald. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Myriad Pro","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">As it was late in the day and she was very tired, I stayed with her at a
cheap motel in Portsmouth, NH. Over the telephone, I asked my mother if she
could temporarily allow Lynn live in her almost empty Cape Cod home in Waltham
until I could get her admitted. Of course, my mother’s Catholic values went
only so far and she said no. Lynn slept soundly throughout the night and was
energetic and full of life when she awoke the next morning, insisting that we
immediately become married. While I had strong feelings for her, I knew that
there was no way that I could marry her. I explained that there was only one
path for her and that was extensive mental illness recovery. I also identified
to her the benefits of being admitted to a Massachusetts State mental facility.
However, privately, I was not quite sure how that was going to happen. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Myriad Pro","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">During this period of time, it was important for me to stay in touch
with my son despite the chaos we both had been through. Explaining the Lynn
situation to 16 year old Len Jr., who was living with his mother, I asked him
if he thought that my old high school friend, Bill Romaniecki, and his wife who
lived in Attleboro, MA, would temporarily take in Lynn. This would be at least
until I could get her admitted to Fuller State Hospital, also located in
Attleboro. Fuller was known to be Massachusetts’s finest state long –term
facility which, I believed, Lynn needed. However, after Len Jr. discussed this
possibility with his mother who continued her close relationship with the
Romanieckis, he reported back that there would be no problem. I had fired
Romaniecki from OfficeLand. Later he purchased an OfficeLand Franchise
inHanover, Mass. (a store he then sold to Staples, I found out later). What I
did not know at the time, was that he and the other franchise owners, together
with my ex-wife, and my corrupt family, had made arrangements to sell the
complete chain of stores to Staples. I would get nothing, no payment from this
sale of my company. Romaniecki was part of the conspiracy and he and my family
were doing everything possible to keep me from learning anything about the
takeover by Staples. Of course, I didn’t know at the time that taking Lynn to
my former high school friend for help was like placing the chicken in the fox’s
den. As the Staples’s acquisition had just happened, as we now know, certainly
Lynn would have discovered that fact when she was living with her ex-husband
for the holidays. Her own OfficeLand store was part of the deal. However, not
realizing the conspiracy and with no other options, I gambled that he and his
wife would be empathetic. This misjudgment on my part proved fatal to Lynn. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Myriad Pro","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">I did not have much time with Lynn before going to Attleboro, but the
morning she woke up and told me that she wanted us to get married; she also
told me that there was much more for me to know about her brief stay with her
ex-husband. She told me that she was ridiculed for her activity with me in
front of her children and was also, again, both physically and mentally abused
and there was much more to tell me. Not wanting for her to become immersed in
the difficult troubles of the past, I told her that we would cover her previous
experiences later. I also promised her
that she would someday fully become a “…whole person” and become well enough to
have her children back. She told me that she knew she had major depression
problems and wanted to “…get better” for her kids. To this day, I feel very
guilty about having taken her to Attleboro and placing her with people who were
only interested in the money they were receiving from Staples.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Myriad Pro","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Through Len Jr., arrangements were made with Bill Romaniecki that I
drove Lynn to their home. Len Jr. also told me that Bill and his wife, Jackie,
were not angry with me and very definitely would help Lynn. Arriving at their
home, Jackie made a bed in their basement for Lynn. I saw a marquis of a local
high school performing the “Mikado” by Gilbert and Sullivan. I took Lynn to see
the operetta that evening, hoping that she would cheer her up and allow her to
become relaxed before returning to a strange home. As for me, I had to travel
back to Woburn (50 miles) where I was working with Basil in a new company. The
next day, with Basil’s help, I made a few phone calls. One was to Fuller State
Hospital where they were very cooperative but explained that Lynn would need a
Massachusetts State Driver’s License before being admitted to their hospital.
With Bill and Jackie nearby, they were supposed to help her obtain a
Massachusetts driver’s license and declare their home as hers. They never did. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Myriad Pro","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">After about one week and during one of my visits to see her, disaster
struck. Taking her out for an ice cream, she became very depressed and was
uncontrollably crying as she was begging to see her children. So out of
control, I took her to the Attleboro Sturdy Hospital where she received
immediate care. After the doctor met with her, a policeman was assigned to
guard the outside entry to her room. However, I was permitted to see her at any
time. I believe that there was something that she only told her doctor that
caused the police to be assigned outside her door. Perhaps it might have had
something to do Bill. Bill was unemployed and was remaining with Lynn all day
while she was in their home. I became suspicious of Bill and there was no
activity taking place in helping Lynn obtain a driver’s license that she needed
for entry to Fuller. The hospital staff “section nined” Lynn and made immediate
arrangements for her to be transferred to Corrigan State Hospital in Fall River
(about 30 miles away). The nurses encouraged me to follow the ambulance and explain
things to the doctors at Corrigan. As she was admitted to Corrigan, the staff
and doctor went out of their way to explain that she would have to stay with
them for about three months for important mental health care. She was not being
allowed to have visitors until the doctor felt that she was ready and he would
call me when she was. From my personal point of view, she was in good hands
with very competent Massachusetts mental health staff, and I needed a great
deal of time to get my own life together. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Myriad Pro","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Sometime in the spring of 1993, I received a call from Lynn’s doctor at
Corrigan asking me to meet with him. When I did, he completely explained her
symptoms and told me that, besides being Bipolar and having other emotional
behavior, she was “an extreme danger to herself” and needed long term care for
which Corrigan was not suited. I explained my earlier discussions with Fuller
and we both agreed that would be the best place for her. Of course, I relayed
all of this information to the Romanieckis and to my mother, telling them that,
with the doctor’s help, I was going to have Lynn admitted to Fuller. A couple
of days passed and, in the afternoon, I picked her up at Corrigan. The doctor
gave her some medicine and a prescription for Lithium and another drug which I
was to give to the Fuller people. He emphasized to me that Lynn was incredibly
suicidal and that he was only releasing her to me if she went from Corrigan
straight to Fuller. Having called Fuller in the morning, I assured him that was
exactly what I was going to do and Fuller was ready to admit her. Because Lynn
had been a resident at Corrigan, there was no other requirement issue I was
told. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Myriad Pro","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Late that afternoon I arrived at Fuller with Lynn and her suitcase. She
was optimistic and ready for long term care which she knew would be the best
treatment. However, at Fuller’s office they, surprisingly, refused her
admission. I explained the situation as to where she had been for 3 months and
they repeated that she was not permitted toenter their hospital. They also
refused to even call the doctor at Corrigan and demanded that we leave. I
believe someone very influential prevented Lynn from being admitted. As it was
late in the day, there was no choice for me but to, again, leave Lynn at the
Romaniecki home until I could find a resolution the next day. After taking Lynn
to her downstairs bedroom, I discussed the situation with both Bill and Jackie
and what the Corrigan doctor told me must be done at Fuller. Looking across
from them in their living room Bill said “…there is no problem with Lynn as YOU
have the problem”. I was disgusted and shocked. I went to Waltham to tell my
mother who was also unsympathetic. However, to my surprise my mother told me
that she was conveying all the information about Lynn to my brother, Tom, who
was living many miles north in Columbia, NH, and he was discussing the matter
with Bill Romaniecki. I warned my mother to keep my brother out of this matter.
Just for one night I stayed at my mother’s home to shorten my driving time. The
next morning I woke up very early so as to travel to Attleboro and discuss the
matter with Bill’s wife. Before I left I told my mother of my plan. Jackie was a science teacher and I hoped
would recognize the urgency of properly dealing with Lynn. Arriving very early,
I let myself in through the basement door where Lynn had been sleeping. I did
not disturb her but met up with one of Romanieckis' sons who were getting ready
to deliver papers with Bill. I asked him to let his mother know that I was downstairs
and wanted to speak with her. However, she never came down and, instead, I
heard her leave with her boys to deliver papers. Sitting on the basement floor, and waiting
for Bill to come down to talk with me, the doorbell rang and immediately Bill
accompanied two police officers downstairs ordering them to arrest me for
trespassing. I saw that Lynn woke up and
was trying to get the police to tell them that she was with me but Bill kept
her from talking with the police. Instead, the police, trying to appease
Romaniecki, asked if I was trespassing and told me to leave. Not wanting to get
arrested and not arguing with them, I quickly departed. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Myriad Pro","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Angry about what had happened, I went to my mother. She told me that she
had told my brother, Tom, what I had planned to do. Obviously, now I know that
they were all involved with something that was not good for Lynn or me. Of
course this was to remove me from any connection with Lynn as they took control
of a very mentally ill Lynn Crocker. Reluctantly, there was nothing more that I
could do for Lynn as it was vital that I spend more time getting my life in
order. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Myriad Pro","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">About a month went by and my mother called to tell me that the Attleboro
Police called wanting to issue an arrest warrant for me stealing Lynn Crocker’s
fax machine. In discussing the matter with an Attleboro Police captain, he
stated that he thought his officer was “too quick” to issue an arrest warrant
and was thankful that I had called him. He stated that his officer met with
both Bill and Lynn but it was Bill that gave his officer most of the details. I
explained that the fax machine in question belonged to me and not to Lynn. I
also tried to explain how Lynn had ended up at the Romaniecki residence. He
thanked me and asked me to write to him about the incident, as I did, and I
never heard anything more. However, I also knew by the information given to me
by the police, that Lynn was not receiving the mental health care that was
critical to her survival. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Myriad Pro","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">About two months after the fax machine incident, my mother received a
Restraining Order for me to have no further contact with Lynn at her new home
(Romanieckis) as I was “ …a danger to Lynn”. This was odd because I had
absolutely no contact with Lynn in Attleboro or anywhere else. Attending the
hearing on the Restraining Order, I went to the morning session at Attleboro
District Court. When I entered the court room, besides the two court officers,
there were only two people sitting in the court room. They were Bill Romaniecki
and Lynn Crocker. Looking directly at her, Lynn was emotionless and seemed
drugged up. As a former high school
teacher, I witnessed that “look” quite often. (I also wondered if my brother,
Tom, who was a Customs Agent and suspected smuggler, was the person supplying
the drugs. Whether it was Cuban cigars or motorcycles, he bragged about getting
anything he wanted from the people that he confiscated their property at the
Canadian border.) As I sat down on the opposite side of the court room, Bill
went up to one of the court officers and said something to them. All of a
sudden both court officers rushed me and took me to the back staying “…that man
(Bill) said you have a gun in your briefcase”. Explaining, I never owned a gun,
I was allowed to sit down and be heard by the judge. When it came time for the
hearing, Bill spoke for Lynn stating I was a threat to Lynn’s life. Afterward,
I explained who I was; the former president of the Newton Kiwanis Club and a
friend of Judge Monte Basbas. Trying to
make clear the incredible detail to this case, Romaniecki interrupted several
times and was told by the Judge to keep quiet. Politely stating that he did not
have time to hear all the details, the judge asked me to simply promise the
court that I would never visit Lynn at the Romaniecki home, and I agreed. He
denied the Restraining Order and thanked me for coming in. I was disappointed
that I was not able to explain the accurate activity that was taking place at
the Romaniecki home but with so many people for the judge to adjudicate, I
understood the situation. However, because Lynn remained at the Romanieckis
home, I now absolutely knew that Romaniecki and others in the conspiracy were:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Myriad Pro","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">• Placing Lynn Crocker in a
mortally dangerous situation according to her doctor at Corrigan. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Myriad Pro","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">• Using the law to prevent me
from having any further contact with Lynn. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Myriad Pro","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">But I still did not understand their motive. That was the last time I
saw Lynn Crocker. Later, I asked my mother and others what happened to Lynn, I
was told the following lies:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Myriad Pro","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">• She took a job with Towhill
Office Products which became Staples.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Myriad Pro","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">• She changed her identity and
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<span style="font-family: "Myriad Pro","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">• She moved back with her
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<span style="font-family: "Myriad Pro","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Despite my personal roller coaster ride with Lynn, all I wanted for Lynn
was for her to receive proper long term mental health care. I would have been
very content if she fully recovered, left the hospital, and fell in love with a
good person and was able to enjoy her children that she so loved. Of course, I
would have liked to have remained a friend and watch the progress of her lovely
children. Years later, I reflected on her children’s eulogy-like remembrance
and picture of her children on Facebook. According to her “husband” David, who
I spoke with in March of 2015, Lucille McIntyre had in fact moved back to Maine
living nearby her children and received employment from a furniture company
owned by a large office products company outside of Boston who sold out to
Staples Inc. On the job with her company she met David McIntyre in 2001 and, he
told me that they were married the same year. As you already know, her accident
was on September 3, 2001 and she died on November 19, and so did the baby she
was carrying. David, who knew of Lynn’s incest background, hospitalization in
Massachusetts, her ex-husband’s abuse, was not aware of any mental health
treatment she had received when she returned to Maine.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Myriad Pro","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Those who profited from the Staples- OfficeLand deal did everything they
could to make sure that she would never be in contact with me. Her hospitalization
would have invited the possibility that I would meet with her and learn of the
Staples conspiracy that I was only able to discover many years later. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Myriad Pro","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">• Was she kidnapped in
Attleboro? Absolutely! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Myriad Pro","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">• Was she given the “option” to
again see her children if she moved back to Maine and given a job at the same
time Romaniecki and my family had the power to return her to the same abusive
husband she left only a few months before. This way they insured that their
Staples conspiracy remained far away from me. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Myriad Pro","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">• Was there neglect on the part
of those that caused her to leave Massachusetts without having any doctor
ordered mental health treatment?
Absolutely! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Myriad Pro","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">• Would Lynn be alive and
healthy today if she had been allowed to have long term mental health treatment
at Fuller? Probably.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Myriad Pro","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">• Ask yourselves if those
involved in insuring the capture of their illicit money at the cost of
someone’s life should go unpunished? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Myriad Pro","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">I’ve had many years of reflecting back on the disappearance of my
OfficeLand stores and the sudden personal chaos that ensued in 1991. I am now
very sure what Lynn wanted to tell me that icy cold day in January of 1993
after leaving the Biddeford State Hospital. If I had been less sensitive of her
very weak mental condition and more concerned about finding out the details as
to what transpired and was said to Lynn during her 2-3 month stay with her
ex-husband, the results may have been very different. The most important fact I
would have learned before Romaniecki and my family abducted Lynn was that her
ex-husband took the money from Staples and sold their OfficeLand store in
Sanford, Maine. He sold out as the other franchises did and it was the single
most important reason to keep Lynn from getting too close to me. Had I known
that information at the time, with the help of my friend Basil Henriques and
his lawyer, I would have gone to either the New Hampshire or Massachusetts
State Attorney General to stop the on-going secret acquisition by Staples.
Today, I am sure that my many documents from the Federal Records Center in
Waltham, MA, selected witnesses, and depositions would reveal the proof of this
conspiracy. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Myriad Pro","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">As for my corrupt family, they are now living off the giant trust fund
that was created as the result of forgery, and a great many illegal activities
to make sure that I was “out of the picture” so as
to take, for them, a large amount of stolen money. In order to maintain their
perception of integrity they have created an absolute nightmare of character
assassination and slander, targeting both me and my present wife which
continues today. We are sure that this is also why I have never been able to
have any contact with my two beautiful daughters since 1982. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Myriad Pro","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">As for Staples Inc., their part of the conspiracy to eliminate a
competitor was simply part of the carnage they willingly funded and left
behind, allowing the founders to become present-day billionaires. The founders
and investors of Staples, Inc. will go as far as they can in order to make sure
their success is realized. Carefully shielding themselves from personal exposure, they use the finest
law firms who prostitute their services, in order to deliver the order of
destroying competition. How it might affect or physically harm people in the
process is of no concern to them. Staples Inc. represents the worst of
capitalism. Integrity and ethics to their founders are naïve qualities of a
past generation. They are only concerned about their increasing personal wealth
and maintaining the façade of
“gentlemen” as they never will be. They are like the women who “..come
and go talking of Michaelangelo”. Beneath the veneer of their ivy league
education, they manipulate their friends and are barbaric to those that oppose
them. The world would be a better place if people like the founders of Staples
never existed. The masses of those that idolize wealth and genuflect in their
presence would be better served if they listened more carefully to the message
of our new Pope Frances rather to the idolatry of those who offer greed and
corruption. These are the same people who also try to run our country and, if
they do, they will attain more wealth and we will continue to have less. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Myriad Pro","sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Len Faucher was a high school teacher and
administrator in the Boston area, Adjunct Professor of Music at Plymouth State
University, and Trustee of his Alma mater, The Boston Conservatory. Today he is
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Len Faucherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10827635280921110277noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8840311120509245293.post-68615400088268886872010-06-03T18:22:00.001-06:002013-03-11T15:13:19.850-06:00OfficeLand and Office Oasis<div style="font-family: times new roman; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"> In future messages I will separate my remarks by events connected to <b>OfficeLand, </b><span style="font-weight: normal;">Office Oasis, </span><b>ICDL , Present, Family, or Personal.<br />
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</b></span> </div><span style="font-family: times new roman; font-size: 100%;">Regarding <b>OfficeLand – </b>After taking a FORTRAN programing course in 1987, I investigated the opportunity of selling personal computers from our OfficeLand stores. At the time, there were about 10-12 stores located in the metro Boston area and it became obvious that computers were rapidly replacing typewriters and would be the equipment of the future. At our Newton store, we also were an IBM and Eagle computer dealer. Near my home in Shrewsbury, MA, I became close friends with a neighbor, Yao Tsung Yen. He was a PhD from Carnegie Mellon in Physics and worked on new technology for Digital Computer. In fact, we spent many hours together as he taught me all he could about analog, digital and new HDTV that he was working on. He loved my retail concept for OfficeLand and, with his help, we created a new company called Offcom, Inc. This would be an entirely new computer distribution model that would rival the then popular Leading Edge Computer. OfficeLand funded Offcom and we entered into an agreement to private label new 286 computers manufactured for OfficeLand by Mitac International of Taiwan. Dr. Yen and I visited with State Senator Bill Bulger who had us meet the Mass. Secretary of Commerce who was interested in us setting up larger distribution in Ireland. We did not go that far but we did bring in about 100 computers which we sold from the larger Newton OfficeLand store. The franchises were also encouraged to each purchase one computer at cost. They would either send customers to Newton for pickup or pick the computers up themselves for the customers. This “big ticket” item significantly added sales and profits to the franchise stores and was well received by them especially when we advertised both in the Boston Globe and the Wall Street Journal. We also remodeled the Newton store and were poised for terrific success. </span><br />
<div style="font-family: times new roman; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"></div><div style="font-family: times new roman; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 100%;">Only within a few weeks the unthinkable happened. On the floor above our store, I was told that a sink was left on over the weekend by someone that caused an overflow of water to seep into both our first floor and basement location of the OfficeLand computer store. This ruined most of our inventory. Our business interruption insurance would not cover the losses and the store was out of commission for good. With the help of the OfficeLand attorney, Ray Ewer, we pursued a lawsuit against the landlord, Peter Turchon. Turchon owned and managed hundreds of apartments in the Brighton and Dorcester areas of Boston. He once bragged about throwing old ladies out on the street in order to collect higher rent. He also showed me a picture of his Dover estate and the 12 expensive sport cars parked in front. He was wealthy and very influential. I hired an expert witnesses and the suit went to trial a year later. After the trial began and I testified, the judge interrupted my testimony ordering both attorneys into his chamber. According to Ewer, the judge refused to accept our expert witness and I was told that the best that could be expected was an agreement that Ewer would be paid by the landlord. I lost a great deal including the most important initiative of selling computers at all our OfficeLand stores. Turchon was elated as I am sure was Tom Stemburg whose headquarters was only a quarter of a mile away. This event forced my departure from Newton and the relocation of OfficeLand to Londonderry, NH. </span> </div><div face="times new roman" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />
</div><div face="times new roman" style="font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 100%;">Back to <span style="font-style: normal;"><b>ICDL </b></span><span style="font-style: normal;">and my description of our board. ..</span></span></div><div style="font-family: times new roman; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-style: normal;">Ray Broderick had me meet Walter Reichert in his Andover home. Reichert almost immediately loaned $50,000 to the start up of Picture Communications and I was grateful. Very shortly thereafter, he introduced me to his barber, Nicklas Scalese, and owner of nearby “Cocos” where almost everyone of influence had their hair cut. Much of my description of Reichert's past actually comes from Scalese. Reichert's father was one of the founders of CR Bard, a large medical device company well known in the Boston area. A graduate of Colgate, Reichert had also done well as a divisional president at Bard and according to Scalese was worth 54 million dollars. A major scandal occurred at CR Bard which, according to the FDA, witnessed CR Bard intentionally allowing faulty heart catheters to be sold on the market resulting in deaths. CR Bard took the position that it was more cost effective to pay off the insurance claims than to stop sales. This resulted in the FDA permanently closing CR Bard and some of Reichert's colleagues going to jail. Nick also described Walter as a person that “ uses cash to lubricate his getting his way” and that he followed his mother's teaching of attacking all his issues as being in a war. His mother was often referred to as the General. To meet him, however, he was polite, cordial, and engaging. It was obvious that Reichert was in control of what needed to be done and he quickly succeeded in placing a key member of the management team to work with me at Picture Communications. This was William Friedburg who became both COO and CFO. However, when I was told by Scalese that Friedburg was seeking the support of board members to replace me, I fired Friedberg. Reichert asked me not to but I did so in any case. It did not take long to find out that I was in a defensive position in a new company that I had founded. Around the same Reichert had what he described as a very important meeting with Jerry Berberian. Jerry Berberian also lived in Andover. If you recall from my earlier postings, Berberian was a key friend and contact of Tom Stemberg. Actually, he was well known in the office products industry as he remained the only Manufacturers Rep after Staples decimated 12,000 smaller office supply stores, 100 manufacturers and changed the entire industry. Berberian had a key role with Stemberg. Berberian's company handled all warranties of products being sold at the Staples stores. Berberian and I never got along while I was running Office Land as I dealt directly with the manufacturer and not the middlemen. A meeting between Berberian and Reichert set the stage for bigger problems for me down the road. </span> </span> </div><div style="font-family: times new roman; font-weight: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-size: 100%;">Watch for Nicklas Scalese.</span></div>Len Faucherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10827635280921110277noreply@blogger.com