Finally true love conquers all

Mqx said:
Now, at last, she is getting married to her former student/victim.

tony5 said:

I doubt he sees himself as a victim if he's marrying her.

Thistle said:

Probably not, but the psychological effects of being in this type of relationship throughout his adolescence cannot be discounted.

[Edited on Feb 14, 2005 by Thistle]

PsychoMagnet said:
I'd hit it.

Thistle said:

Probably not, but the psychological effects of being in this type of relationship throughout his adolescence cannot be discounted.

MrStitches said:

Maybe it didn't effect him psychologically. I think it really depends on the person in a situation like that. Some kids might be eternally messed up, and others would be fine with it.

Daily Star

August 8, 2004


…Mother-of-six Mary Kay Letourneau, 42, smuggled out letters bragging of steamy affairs with a male guard and lesbian inmates.

But her young lover Vili Fualaau - who fathered two of her children and is now aged 21 - is still desperate to be with her after her release a few days ago.

Letourneau, of Des Moines, Washington, served seven years in a state prison for her illicit romance with Vili. In one letter from jail she told him about a 23-year-old guard, saying: "I love the way he talks about my body. He's a f***ing sexaholic.

"He was sitting on my back legs behind my butt once, giving me a back massage, then I felt this kiss on the side of my neck. I let him touch me...and more happened that you don't need to know about."

She also described two lesbian relationships. Of one lover she said: "She has broad shoulders and the biggest titties you have ever seen."
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From the Today Show

August 6, 2004 Friday

Mr. VILI FUALAAU (Had Sexual Relationship With Teacher When He Was 12 Years Old): More than those words spoken alone. It's--it's like a moving--a nonstop moving thing like air. It's, like, it's forever.

LAUER: When you think about spending time with Mary now--I mean, what would you love to do on the first evening you two get to see each other?

Mr. FUALAAU: I want to go on a boat cruise. I want to go to the Bahamas or something, or Miami. I don't know. Somewhere tropical, really hot. Or maybe somewhere really cold.

LAUER: Do you think it'll be hard to talk after seven years? I mean, so much has happened in both of your lives.

Mr. FUALAAU: I don't think it would. If anything, I would be more talkative when she gets out because I was--I was really happy when she was--when she was out and we were together. I was really happy. And when she was separated from me, I was very down. You know, I didn't want to talk to anybody, I couldn't look anybody in the eye, I couldn't explain myself. Always depressed. I was always depressed.

LAUER: So what you're telling me is you have not been really happy since that short period of time that Mary Kay Letourneau was out of jail before she was sentenced to prison for being with you?

Mr. FUALAAU: Yes.

LAUER: It's been a struggle through this whole time?

Mr. FUALAAU: Yes. Through seven years, but I've--I made it through. I've--I'm surprised I'm still alive.

LAUER: Are you really?

Mr. FUALAAU: Yes.

LAUER: You really thought there were times where...

Mr. FUALAAU: I thought sometimes, you know, like, 'I'm just going to give up, you know? I can't deal with these depressions, emotions anymore, you know.'

…

LAUER: Do you still have a lot of friends from when you were in school during that period when you were 13, 14? I mean, is it possible for you to still connect to those people?

Mr. FUALAAU: Well, I really can't connect to them like how I used to connect to them. I mean, we were, like, just normal kids back then and we did normal stuff. You know, looking at chicks, teasing chicks, teasing other kids, try to be the most popular kid in school, you know?

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Mr. FUALAAU: I ask myself the same thing all the time. You know, I was 12, she was 32. When I look back at the situation, I'm just like, 'What did she see in me? You know, she's older than I am, she's a teacher, and she's married, has a good life.'

LAUER: Four kids.

Mr. FUALAAU: 'And she has four kids of her own, and I'm 12. I barely even know what my future is.'

LAUER: Or who I am.

Mr. FUALAAU: Or--yeah, or who I am. I believe that I'm not really that good looking so I--I ask myself that all the time, like, 'What's--what's the deal here? Why does she love me, or why does she say she's in love with me?'

LAUER: She said basically you were--you were old beyond your years, wise beyond your years, very strong, very smart, and that there was an instant attraction.

Mr. FUALAAU: I wouldn't say it like that. I mean...

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Mr. FUALAAU: At first it was really hard for me to believe I was a father. I still wanted to live out my childhood, which I've tried but I still couldn't because it just couldn't happen.

LAUER: Yeah, you were 14 when Audrey was born, right?

Mr. FUALAAU: Right.

LAUER: And then 16 when Alexis was born?

Mr. FUALAAU: Yes.

LAUER: That's a tough adjustment. I mean, how did you deal with it?

Mr. FUALAAU: At home I write little poems. Poems about my life and how I lived it out and what I--what gave me that strive, you know, just to keep pushing forward. And every time I fall, you know, I had to pick myself up and what I did to do those kind of things.

LAUER: Tell me about a couple of times when you fell. I mean, did you have tough times when you thought, 'I'm not going to make it through this'?

Mr. FUALAAU: Yes, I've--I've been there more than I--more than two hands, you know? More than I can count. It's--it's just been crazy.

…

Mr. FUALAAU: And I've heard that so many times. There's people, like, telling me, 'Vili, you're very young, very handsome guy. There's a lot of other girls out there. Don't dwell on this relationship because it's making you sad. I hate to see you sad like this. So, you know, try--try other relationships. Try to see--make yourself happy.' And I have. And other relationships haven't made me happy.

LAUER: Has it affected the way you view other women?

Mr. FUALAAU: Yes, it has. I mean, I...

LAUER: In what way?

Mr. FUALAAU: Well, every girl or woman that I've gone out with were--I've always, like, compared Mary to them. Like, can they stand up to who--who Mary was?

LAUER: And if they're teen-agers, that's like comparing a girl to a woman...

Mr. FUALAAU: Right.

LAUER: ...which has got to be a little difficult for you. Although some people would say...

Mr. FUALAAU: Right.

LAUER: ...that's--that's what you should be after. You should go after a girl.

Mr. FUALAAU: Well, I wanted to be in love and on many different levels. You know, I wanted to bond with them on many different levels, and I couldn't do that with any other girl because I constantly thought about Mary, or they would constantly remind me about Mary. They would bring up the subject, 'So how did it all start?' you know? I'm like, 'Come on.'

LAUER: So you'd be on, like, the second date...

Mr. FUALAAU: Yeah.

LAUER: ...and they'd say, 'Tell me about Mary Kay'?

Mr. FUALAAU: Yeah. It'd be like that. You know, and it just--sometimes it would, like, irritate me because I wanted to start something new. I wanted to see if it could work. But, I guess, you know, it's just inevitable not to work.

LAUER: You have no doubt--even as a 12- and 13-year-old, you had no doubt that this was the relationship that for you was forever?

Mr. FUALAAU: I never really thought I could ever fall in love that young. I didn't know what the feeling was, but I could explain the feeling from, you know--from the adrenaline rush, from the feelings that flowed through my body, and the words that came out of my mouth. Sometimes they sounded kind of corny, at the same time I didn't really care because it was from my heart and it's what was true, or what is still true.