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| Michael Schiavo's Live-In Gal |
| 2005-03-27 |
| Michael's spelling problem: Big-a-me Jodi Centonze, 40, is Michael Schiavo's live-in girlfriend, mother of their two children, 1 and 21/2 years old. Centonze occupies a peculiar role in the national debate over Terri Schiavo - in the middle of it, but never a public part of it. "She wants to stay out of it," said her brother, John Centonze. "She says this is not about her, it's about Terri." Yet she has been anathematized, her name invoked as a key reason why Schiavo, 41, should not control his wife's fate. Outside Terri's hospice, protesters hold signs that say, "Michael don't plan the wedding yet, we still have hope!" and "Arrest Mike for bigamy." Schiavo has moved on, his opponents say, and should give Terri back to her parents. "Remaining married to him is an embarrassment," said David Gibbs III, the lawyer for Terri's parents. He tried unsuccessfully to get Terri a divorce last month, accusing Schiavo of "open adultery." Schiavo's opponents have directed much vitriol toward Jodi Centonze, threatening her life and her two children. In dozens of letters mailed to the couple's Countryside home, some critics have called her a whore and her children bastards, relatives say. Through it all, Centonze has remained quietly by Schiavo's side. She was there long before the television cameras, before Terri's condition became a national obsession. Jodi Centonze has visited Terri, shopped for her, washed her clothes, relatives say. She has accepted her role as the other woman, and believes Michael Schiavo has enough room in his heart for both, relatives say. "She knows she was not his first choice," said one of Schiavo's friends, Russ Hyden of Gainesville. "But we don't always get to choose." After all, he wasn't her first choice, either. |
| Posted by:Captain America |
| #5 . . . and believes Michael Schiavo has enough room in his heart for both, relatives say. Oh, that's a good one. Who among us Rantoholics is willing to try that one out on dear wife? |
| Posted by: Doc8404 2005-03-27 10:58:22 PM |
| #4 ..and chose poorly. Weird. As of this moment, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade is playing on USA. :) |
| Posted by: Bomb-a-rama 2005-03-27 9:24:03 PM |
| #3 Jodi, think about this before you and your illegitimate kids go to sleep tonight... Guess what happens to a relative of Michael when they end up on a feeding tub? |
| Posted by: anymouse 2005-03-27 8:12:09 PM |
| #2 After all, he wasn’t her first choice, either. *snicker* |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2005-03-27 8:05:02 PM |
| #1 But we don’t always get to choose." What rubbish - you can always choose to have nothing to do with a man who's already married. She chose - and chose poorly. |
| Posted by: Raj 2005-03-27 5:17:40 PM |