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Author Message Prev Topic | Next Topic  kygreylady Senior Member Joined: November/11/2006 United States of America Posts: 287 Gender: Female Posted: January/05/2010 at 1:48pm | IP Logged Anyone remember "Annette" from that board. I heard she had passed away. Just wondered if any of you knew about it. Back to Top    Chris Senior Member Joined: November/12/2006 United States of America Posts: 183 Gender: Female Posted: January/06/2010 at 2:17pm | IP Logged I found this post on the Democratic Underground website. There is also talk on there that Annette and her sister were at odds for years - both accusing the other of being mentally unstable so I don't know how true all the comments the sister made are: Wabansia (8 posts)      Fri Jan-01-10 06:27 PM Response to Original message 732. I AM ANNETTE APPOLLO'S OLDER SISTER (69 YEARS OLD) FYI, Annette Appollo committed suicide (by prescription drug overdose) on 12/23/09. She was going to be evicted from her apt. the next day for non-payment of rent. Her parents and I constituted her immediate family. Dad was a postal worker; mom was a dress factory machine operator. They saved every cent they could toward our education. I did not want to go to college (to their disappointment; every WWII era parent dreamed their kids would go to college). Instead I went to business school. Annette, though later found to be mentally fragile, was very intelligent, valedictorian of her high school class (albeit a class of only 95) and earning a fully paid scholastic scholarship to Temple Univ., Phila. where she first became exposed to the lifestyles of the 'rich and famous'. She mingled with kids from wealthy backgrounds and began to emulate them, grades slipped, she was thrown out. After two more colleges (paid for with my parents' hard-earned money), they finally got her through an undergrad degree. She married one of her professors, Dr. Lawrence Porter (20+ years older than she), moved to Wash., DC, was accepted into the law school of Catholic Univ. (again, parents' money). Larry accepted a job with Livermore Labs, Walnut Creek, Calif. She didn't like Calif., cooked up the story that he was cheating on her and returned home. Parents paid for divorce (marriage lasted two or three years). Parents then subsidized her until approximately 1980 (meanwhile I and my husband were being transferred all over the country and the world by his employer (Haliburton, the name you folks love to hate). Finally I learned in late 1981 that she had abandoned them and, after dad called on a local friend's son who was a detective in the Wash., DC area to check her apt. and, upon her learning of this, dad receiving a letter from her lawyer threatening a lawsuit for harrassment if he continued to try to contact her, I took over looking after them, making the trip cross country on holidays, seeing that they were OK, etc. In 1991 we left Chicago and returned to the old homestead, at my dad's request, because he'd been diagnosed with Parkinson's disease and dementia simultaneously. He died in 1995, mother died in 1998. Annette monitored all of this through relatives (who I never knew), but her lawyer did call one day and ask how my dad was....dad had died the day before. She was a very emotionally disturbed individual. Combine that feature with being a grifter (to the best of our knowledge she never worked a day in her life as evidenced by the remarks of her apt. bldg. mgr. who found her body (three days after she committed suicide) and her will next to her naming him executor of her 'estate'. He said she had $400 in her checking account and, in going through her records, had never contributed one cent to Soc. Security. To those who loved her, I thank you because I've never known anyone who did, except my parents. To those to whom she was mean and rude, I apologize. We both came from a wonderful and caring family...a family that gave her everything, but when they refused to continue to pay her way at age 35, she abandoned them. She always wanted to be rich and famous, made up stories about being rich and famous, really did get a book published but it didn't sell at all. The apt. mgr. said there was a recently received letter from her publisher on her desk indicating that she'd submitted a manuscript that she hoped would be published. It was a turn-down letter, stating that the manuscript seemed to be a 'memoir, and a bad one at that'. As always, it was all about Annette. Back to Top    kygreylady Senior Member Joined: November/11/2006 United States of America Posts: 287 Gender: Female Posted: January/07/2010 at 8:24am | IP Logged Oh My! Thank You Chris. It is hard to know what happened. Both dis and Annette were always nice to me, but they did have odds out with each other. This is really sad though...whatever happened. Back to Top    kygreylady Senior Member Joined: November/11/2006 United States of America Posts: 287 Gender: Female Posted: January/07/2010 at 8:52am | IP Logged Wonder what dis is up to these days. I hang out some at this old news item web site. http://204.186.96.121/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?board=news Back to Top

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