Today’s strip shows the beauty and complexity of our human relationships. I think special chops have to go to Boyd and Dr. Fine through all this. Boyd’s not as invested emotionally in Annie as the others, but he has been there supporting Lila through this whole ordeal. And Dr. Fine is as concerned with Annie’s emotional well-being as with her physical health.
Move in together. Build a new wing. You got the bucks so do it right for EVERYBODY. And enjoy this feeling, if she grows to the teens, you’ll find that giving her to different parents for a while, like til she’s thirty, isn’t going to seem like such a bad idea.
Annie, and the effect she has on all the other characters in thebstrip, has become one of, if not the stongest, elements in the story. She is one of those characters who take on a life of their own. Interseting to see how JF works this.
I do not know how central children are in in JF’s life, but they always surprise you and find new ways to terrify and amaze you. My youngest, for example, has decided he does notbwant to go to college, and has quit his job to be a full time rock band musician. Amazing in many ways, and utterly terrifying in others.
Ones who said it’s easy to adopt not quite true. It takes a lot of money. Pastor of our church his wife wanted to adopt and they have 3 boys. They had fund raisers and went through adoption agency but did but not here in US had to go outside US. My sister and her hubby tried and not enough monety couldn’t. Their lifestyles has been busy with a side small legal busines.
Morty_a, wasn’t it that dr. Fine started to talk about getting rid of Annie as soon as he found out Annie is blackmailing Tad? So I doubt about fine feelings of dr Fine. His partner, may be.
Well, adoption counselor talked to Dr Fine in http://www.gocomics.com/meaningoflila/2010/06/08/ , over a month before Dr Fine passed this information to Alan. On the other side, he learned that Annie is threatening Tad three days before that, http://www.gocomics.com/meaningoflila/2010/07/10/ . A coincidence, you think?
paha_siga over 14 years ago
Is it really so easy with adopted children that “adopt one, decide a month later you still don’t want her”?
morty_a over 14 years ago
paha, it’s the other way around. Her adoptive parents still want her, but they realize she prefers someone else. They’re trying to do right by her.
jay_dallas over 14 years ago
Today’s strip shows the beauty and complexity of our human relationships. I think special chops have to go to Boyd and Dr. Fine through all this. Boyd’s not as invested emotionally in Annie as the others, but he has been there supporting Lila through this whole ordeal. And Dr. Fine is as concerned with Annie’s emotional well-being as with her physical health.
Charles Brobst Premium Member over 14 years ago
Actually, she’s more an older sister.
freeholder1 over 14 years ago
Move in together. Build a new wing. You got the bucks so do it right for EVERYBODY. And enjoy this feeling, if she grows to the teens, you’ll find that giving her to different parents for a while, like til she’s thirty, isn’t going to seem like such a bad idea.
freeholder1 over 14 years ago
Nailed it, C. A. She has no idea about motherhood, but then no one who becomes a mother for the first time does.
lewisbower over 14 years ago
Lila is thinking of someone beside Lila. Someone grew.
monkeyhead over 14 years ago
I like freeholder1’s idea, it serves all of them!
paul.raulerson Premium Member over 14 years ago
Annie, and the effect she has on all the other characters in thebstrip, has become one of, if not the stongest, elements in the story. She is one of those characters who take on a life of their own. Interseting to see how JF works this.
I do not know how central children are in in JF’s life, but they always surprise you and find new ways to terrify and amaze you. My youngest, for example, has decided he does notbwant to go to college, and has quit his job to be a full time rock band musician. Amazing in many ways, and utterly terrifying in others.
Dapperdan61 Premium Member over 14 years ago
Dr Alan you rock
myming over 14 years ago
although sometimes truth hurts, i’m very happy to see the doctors (or one of them) realize that annie may be better off w/ lila.
they really should ALL be her family.
kab2rb over 14 years ago
Ones who said it’s easy to adopt not quite true. It takes a lot of money. Pastor of our church his wife wanted to adopt and they have 3 boys. They had fund raisers and went through adoption agency but did but not here in US had to go outside US. My sister and her hubby tried and not enough monety couldn’t. Their lifestyles has been busy with a side small legal busines.
SherriannPederson over 14 years ago
… I vote that Dr. Fine and Alan will be allowed to be Annies guardian/parents, and that Lila and her boyfriend are Annies favorite Aunt and Uncle….
cdward over 14 years ago
I’m withfreeholder. They need to all move in together and be a truly blended family. They would all flourish.
paha_siga over 14 years ago
Morty_a, wasn’t it that dr. Fine started to talk about getting rid of Annie as soon as he found out Annie is blackmailing Tad? So I doubt about fine feelings of dr Fine. His partner, may be.
MamaTaney over 14 years ago
I’m with freeholder as well. There has to be a way this can all be worked out well.
morty_a over 14 years ago
paha, Dr. Fine started talking about Annie going to Lila after he called the adoption counselor and they told him Annie preferred Lila:
http://www.gocomics.com/meaningoflila/2010/07/13/
paha_siga over 14 years ago
Well, adoption counselor talked to Dr Fine in http://www.gocomics.com/meaningoflila/2010/06/08/ , over a month before Dr Fine passed this information to Alan. On the other side, he learned that Annie is threatening Tad three days before that, http://www.gocomics.com/meaningoflila/2010/07/10/ . A coincidence, you think?