Some sobering news, which is not often found on a site with as whimsical a name as ihatepink.com ...
I'd just finished hanging out with my "twin sister" April, and then we parted ways, and this is an e-mail I got from her later on:
"I have some bad news to tell you though. You know, on the 26th, after we left you [...] and we as a huge family went out to get dinner at Ocean Palace. Well, when we were done, Mom went to go get the car because grandparents were cold and she didn't want them to walk to the car and she got robbed at gunpoint. Thank God, she is okay. Just a few very minor scrapes that should heal just fine. He did however, steal her entire purse. So David and I spent all of today driving mom to the DMV, banks, everything, to put passcodes and cancel accounts. Man, it was so scary. Apparently when he told Mom to give him her purse she actually said NO. At gunpoint. i have to just fall to my knees and pray and bless God for protecting her.
"Anyway, so I'm telling my girlfriends to be careful. Carry some mace dude."
For those of you who know April's mom, you will be able to envision her standing up to the robber and saying no. Despite how horrifying it must have been and how much trouble she has to go through now, I can't help but smile; undoubtedly, she's got spunk.
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