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This is a comment about Chapter 1, page 5, concerning Carla Caccavale, the family spokesperson. Knowing the family for less than a week and never having known Natalee, I find it rather humorous she would speak of Natalee's character with such emphasis. Carla also misspoke when she said Natalee had a perfect 4.0 average when that is not true. It was only 4.0, when weighted, which is not how GPAs are referred. She did not sound her best in that interview for sure.
 Molly Thursday, August 6, 2009 10:12 AM
Seems like this was the point of the whole first chapter, that the word needed to be out right away that Natalee was Miss Perfect (I believe there is even an article by that name) and that if the girl that was missing was perfect, with good grades and a non drinker and the best friend to all, she would be more likely to get media coverage. After the "Runaway Bride," it makes a lot of sense. For once the media at least tried to do the right thing.
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Dotty Friday, August 7, 2009 03:36 PM
It didn't sound like that to me at all. I have seen locally that LE will drag
their feet on a "runaway"/"missing" person if that person had a record of
leaving the family home for days at a time. They have been more apt to begin
searching within the 48 hours if the person had no history. That doesn't go to say that
I mean that Natalee had a history and they were covering up. What I am saying
is that the family may have polished Natalee's character to give the ALE a
push b/c this was unusual behaviour and they feared ill will had come to her.
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Rizzo Sunday, August 9, 2009 11:05 AM
Well it certainly did seem like the family made a concerted effort to make Natalee as a perfect girl. Seriously, if there is one thing I remember from those early interviews from her friends it was how popular and wonderful and she was everybodies friend. Then I actually read later on that most of her close friends were not on the trip and she was more of an onlooker with this group. It all in hindsight seems a little strange. I suppose that the media would not have been interested in a real normal moderately popular and average looking girl gone missing but it just all seems now a little off. I felt Chapter 1 gave a better more realistic portrayal of what and who she was. All of the hype didn't manage to pull off a discovery though of what happened. Not even the family middle of the night disturbance pulled off anything.
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Dotty Monday, August 10, 2009 11:59 PM
Well, I am not invested in either side and I am with the girl...Natalee that is.
What I saw from both sides of the case is very similar. Joran's family and friends boosted him to sainthood, just as much as Natalee's family and friends did for Natalee
The fact that Beth did it more and louder doesn't change anything at all.
Anita portrayed Joran as a person I don't see him as either.
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linda Thursday, August 13, 2009 11:45 AM
I am not a supporter of either side but these kids were pretty young, both of them. It was at the age that most parents are still grasping and trying to understand what their offspring are all about. Many parents believe one thing, the side they nurtured from birth and what they are hoping and wanting their sons and daughters to become. I think both moms were a bit off with reality but doubt either can be blamed for that error.
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Dotty Sunday, August 16, 2009 09:07 PM
I agree Linda; that's why I would never be broadcasting or letting myself be interviewed stating how wonderful my kids are. I have always been of the thought that what other kids could do,(good or bad) mine could as well and never put them on a pedastal above anyone else. Whether parents are still grapling over what they expect of their kids, or what they see their kids as...a pinch of reality doesn't hurt. I don't blame them, however all that baloney is what has kept this case going in the direction it is now, imo. Anyone not familiar with the case, reading up on the forums would shake their heads in utter disbelief.
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Jan Sunday, August 16, 2009 11:05 PM
Talk about utter disbelief - I have to share a story that happened today at the San Juan Airport. My husband had bought a hat that had Aruba on it and this nice man asked us if we had been there. We said yes, on the cruise and I said I had been a couple other times.
The man said "oh I love Aruba, have been there many times." Then he said it was too bad that girl from Seattle went missing from there a few years back. I said, to him he must mean from Alabama? And that man said, oh no I am sure she was from Seattle because I am from Seattle and I know what I am talking about! My husband looked at me and was kinda dumbstruck - and I just said wow that was too bad. We walked away and of course my whole family had over heard and they were "did a girl go missing in Aruba from Seattle too?" And I said, well I think I would know if she had.
So it just goes to show how badly confused people can be about this case, and how very adamant they can be in their confusion.
But if anyone knows of a girl that went missing in Aruba from Seattle please let me know?
I honestly don't think he meant Amy Bradley either, because the trip he was describing was exactly like Natalee's.
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Dotty Monday, August 17, 2009 10:52 AM
Well that's a man ... wrong and very sure of himself, lol.
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missjolly Tuesday, August 18, 2009 10:21 AM
Great story and I am sure it must have taken great restraint to not give a Holloway Cliff Note version of the case to this poor misguided person.
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Rocky2 Tuesday, August 18, 2009 05:24 PM
Just found this book recently and I must say Chapter 1 is quite a beginning. Sure makes one wonder how much of this story was influenced by the media and maybe even the family.
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Fluster Friday, December 18, 2009 07:15 PM
That's how books come about, from outside influence. Take for example Joran's book. His influence was blog gossip when he wrote about Natalee...re: being pregnant, plus other gossip that was also turned into a Documentary for heaven's sake. 
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