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The last fight she had with her husband before their divorce landed her in the hospital with a fractured jaw and three broken ribs She had no choice but to leave This was not the first tireat pain As a ency room in the past two years Each tiain He was a carpenter and was injured while working on a construction site He turned to alcohol to help kill the pain He beca out all his frustrations on Donna

Donna really loved him Each time before she would lie and tell the doctors who treated her why she was seeking medical help Once her husband broke her arm and she said she fell down the stairs On the other occasion he punched her so hard in the stomach she bled internally

The first male chatter to show any special interest in Donna went by the nicknalad to see him each time he would enter the room He would tell her about some of the experiences he had while he was a police officer It was exciting to say the least, especially when he told of soine h there wouldn't be any hare her ot equal attention from two other chatters whenever they entered the room One was called Teacher as supposedly a retired schoolteacher and the other was Moccasin Joe a retired realtor from Germany They never entered the chat room at the same time

Donna knew people chatted at different times from all around the world because of the ti to chat with people froland, Canada and other places around the globe all at the same time A chat room is one of the few media sources where she could do that She most certainly couldn't do it on the telephone, not all at one ti fellow to chat with One could tell by his knowledge of the world that he traveled the globe and had been toplaces like London, Tokyo, Paris and Singapore These were places Donna had only read about in books

The third chatter nicknamed Teacher was a schoolteacher and by coht science which Donna knew very little about Whenever he would mention a certain science project or fair his students participated in, she had no idea what he was talking about Still he was very polite and always treated her very nice