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Chinese Premiere Li Keqiang waves as he is received by Indian Junior Minister for External Affairs, E. Ahamed, left, after he arrives in New Delhi, India, Sunday, May 19, 2013. Just weeks after a tense border standoff, China's new premier arrived in India on Sunday for his first foreign trip as the neighboring giants look to speed up efforts to settle a decades-old boundary dispute and boost economic ties. A woman at right is a protocol officer. (AP Photo/ Saurabh Das)
Chinese Premiere Li Keqiang waves as he is received by Indian Junior Minister for External Affairs, E. Ahamed, left, after he arrives in New Delhi, India, Sunday, May 19, 2013. Just weeks after a tense border standoff, China's new premier arrived in India on Sunday for his first foreign trip as the neighboring giants look to speed up efforts to settle a decades-old boundary dispute and boost economic ties. A woman at right is a protocol officer. (AP Photo/ Saurabh Das)
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang waves as he is received by Indian junior minister for external affairs, E. Ahamed, right, after he arrived in New Delhi, India, Sunday, May 19, 2013. Just weeks after a tense border standoff, China's new premier arrived in India on Sunday for his first foreign trip as the neighboring giants look to speed up efforts to settle a decades-old boundary dispute and boost economic ties. (AP Photo/Saurabh Das)
Chinese Premiere Li Keqiang waves as he arrives in New Delhi, India, Sunday, May 19, 2013. Just weeks after a tense border standoff, China's new premier arrived in India on Sunday for his first foreign trip as the neighboring giants look to speed up efforts to settle a decades-old boundary dispute and boost economic ties. (AP Photo/ Saurabh Das)
About two dozen members of Shiv Sena, a Hindu right-wing political party, burn an effigy of Chinese Premier Li Keqiang as they demonstrate near India's Parliament, in New Delhi, India, Sunday, May 19, 2013. Just weeks after a tense border standoff, China's new premier headed to India on Sunday for his first foreign trip as the neighboring giants look to speed up efforts to settle a decades-old boundary dispute and boost economic ties. (AP Photo/Tsering Topgyal)
Indian policemen detain a lone Tibetan protestor who tried to stage a protest against the visit of Chinese Premier Li Keqiang outside the Chinese embassy, in New Delhi, India, Sunday, May 19, 2013. Just weeks after a tense border standoff, China's new premier headed to India on Sunday for his first foreign trip as the neighboring giants look to speed up efforts to settle a decades-old boundary dispute and boost economic ties.(AP Photo/Tsering Topgyal)
NEW DELHI (AP) ? Just weeks after a tense border standoff, China's new premier visited India on Sunday on his first foreign trip as the neighboring giants look to speed up efforts to settle a decades-old boundary dispute and boost economic ties.
China says Premier Li Keqiang's choice of India for his first trip abroad since taking office in March shows the importance Beijing attaches to improving relations with New Delhi.
"We think very highly of this gesture because it is our view that high-level political exchanges between our two countries are an important aspect and vehicle for our expanded cooperation," said India's external affairs ministry spokesman, Syed Akbaruddin.
Jasjit Singh, a defense analyst and director of the Center for Strategic and International Studies in New Delhi, said last month's border standoff was unlikely to overshadow Li's three-day visit, the first stop of a foreign tour that also includes Pakistan, Switzerland and Germany.
Singh said Indian and Chinese leaders are likely to review border talks that have failed to produce a breakthrough despite 15 rounds of discussions over the past 10 years. The two sides also will probably discuss working together in Afghanistan after next year's U.S. pullout and cooperation with Southeast Asian countries, he said.
But tensions run high between the two nations. China already sees itself as Asia's great power, while India hopes its increasing economic and military might ? though still far below its neighbor's ? will eventually put it in the same league.
While China has worked to shore up relationships with Nepal and Sri Lanka in India's traditional South Asian sphere of influence, India has been venturing into partnerships with Southeast Asian nations.
Other irritants remain in the bilateral relationship. China is a longtime ally and weapons supplier to Pakistan, India's bitter rival. Also, the presence in India of Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama and the self-declared Tibetan government-in-exile are a source of tension. China accuses the Dalai Lama of wanting to split Tibet off from the rest of China, but he says he seeks more autonomy for Tibetans, not independence.
Unresolved border issues between the two nations have flared as well.
In last month's incident, India said Chinese troops crossed the countries' de facto border on April 15 and pitched camp in the Depsang valley in the Ladakh region of eastern Kashmir. New Delhi responded with diplomatic protests and then moved its soldiers just 300 meters (yards) from the Chinese position.
The two sides negotiated a peaceful end to the standoff by withdrawing troops to their original positions in the Ladakh area.
Gautam Bambawale, a senior external affairs ministry official, said Saturday that India and China are negotiating a Border Defense Cooperation Agreement, but declined to give details. Indian media reports said the agreement proposes a freezing of troop levels in the disputed border region as the two countries make efforts to settle the issue.
Bambawale also said Indian and Chinese officials recently held talks in Beijing on the future of Afghanistan. China, India and Russia have discussed the matter trilaterally with the idea of giving full support to Afghanistan's government as it makes the transition following the withdrawal of U.S. forces in 2014.
Li was to meet with Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh later Sunday and attend a dinner hosted by Singh.
Delegation-level talks between the two sides are scheduled for Monday. Li is to attend a business summit in Mumbai, India's financial capital, among other activities.
The border spat last month prompted the Indian opposition and media to pressure the government to take on China and call off Li's visit. The government, however, chose to go ahead with the trip, highlighting its policy of trying to widen areas of cooperation with China while attempting to resolve key differences.
China has become India's biggest trading partner, with two-way trade jumping from $5 billion in 2002 to nearly $75 billion in 2011, although that figure declined to $61.5 billion last year because of the global economic downturn. Trade remains heavily skewed in China's favor, another source of concern for India.
India and China have had chilly relations since they fought a brief but bloody border war in 1962.
India says China is occupying 38,000 square kilometers (15,000 square miles) of its territory in the Aksai Chin plateau in the western Himalayas, while China claims around 90,000 square kilometers (35,000 square miles) in India's northeastern state of Arunachal Pradesh.
Dorjee Tseten, director of Students for a Free Tibet, said Sunday that New Delhi police had declined permission for Tibetans to hold a demonstration against Li's visit.
"Tibetan activists are currently on the run evading imminent police arrest," he said in a statement, complaining of a heavy police presence in a New Delhi area where a large number of Tibetans-in-exile live.
Police overpowered and detained a Tibetan man as he tried to burn the Chinese flag near China's embassy in the Indian capital.
Police, however, allowed about two dozen members of Shiv Sena, a Hindu right-wing political party, to demonstrate near India's Parliament, where they burned an effigy of the Chinese premier.
"Go back, go back," chanted the protesters, who also carried placards urging the Indian government to respond toughly to China's alleged border incursion. The powerful regional party held power in Mumbai from 1995 to 2000.
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PARIS (Reuters) - French President Francois Hollande has signed into law a bill allowing same-sex marriage, making France the 14th country to legalize gay weddings.
France's official journal announced on Saturday the bill had become law after the Constitutional Council gave it the go-ahead on Friday.
The bill, a campaign pledge by the Socialist president, has been for months hotly contested by many conservatives in France, where allowing gay marriage is one of the biggest social reforms since abolition of the death penalty in 1981.
Opponents have staged huge and often violent demonstrations against the bill and have called yet another protest on May 26. The leader of opposition to gay marriage, a political activist and humorist who goes under the name of Frigide Barjot, has said the protest would draw millions into the streets.
Montpellier mayor Helene Mandroux, who is due to celebrate France's first gay marriage in the southern city on May 29, said the law marked a major social advance.
"Love has won out over hate," she said, while voicing concerns the first gay wedding could attract violent protests.
France, a predominantly Catholic country, follows 13 others including Canada, Denmark, Sweden and most recently Uruguay and New Zealand in allowing gay and lesbian couples to wed. In the United States, Washington D.C. and 12 states have legalized same-sex marriage.
Unlike former president Francois Mitterrand's abolition of the death penalty, which most French people opposed at the time, polls showed more than half the country backed gay marriage.
Nonetheless, with Hollande's popularity ratings at record lows a year into office, the law has proved costly for the president with critics saying it has distracted his attention from reviving the recession-hit economy.
After lawmakers adopted the bill in late April, opponents had sought to scupper it with a last-ditch appeal to the Constitutional Council.
(Reporting by Leigh Thomas; editing by Mark John)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/frances-hollandes-signs-gay-marriage-bill-law-080622558.html
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Every week, it seems, we hear about an even more tragic kind of military death?that of veterans who take their own lives, most often when they?re back at home, seemingly safe and sound. It is, of course, an even deeper loss because unlike most combat-related fatalities, these deaths seem to be much more preventable. If only we?d seen the signs. If only we?d stopped him or her before it was too late.
Data released by the Veterans Administration in February 2013 puts the number of U.S. military vets lost every day to suicide at a staggering 22 veterans. And as we learn more about what?s affecting the men and women coming home from Iraq and Afghanistan, it?s becoming clear that post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and traumatic brain injury (TBI), through explosions and other concussive events, may be strongly linked to vets taking their own lives. This week, researchers at the National Center for Veterans Studies, in Salt Lake City, reported in the journal JAMA Psychiatry on a link they found between the number of TBIs and depression and thoughts of suicide.
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These findings are just the most recent piece, though, in a troubling puzzle that stretches back decades and probably centuries. Until recently, neither the public nor medical professionals really understood the tremendous psychological and emotional impact of war on those who serve in the military. ?We have all these soldiers coming back with TBI, and we now know what that is, but in World War II it was called ?shell shock? or ?battle fatigue,? and it's like you just had to get over it,? says Dale Maharidge, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Bringing Mulligan Home: The Other Side of the Good War (Public Affairs/Perseus). Maharidge?s book tells the story of his father, Steve Maharidge, who served in World War II as a Marine in Love Company. While a good father in many ways, Steve came home from Japan prone to sudden, rageful outbursts that traumatized his family.
A specific incident would haunt Steve Maharidge much of his life: Maharidge writes that his father and the 22nd Marines landed on Okinawa, Japan, with the first wave: On May 30, 1945, near the village of Naha, one of his company tossed a grenade into an open tomb where Japanese soldiers were suspected of hiding. The tomb was an ammo dump. The sympathetic detonation killed the grenade thrower, Pfc. Herman Walter Mulligan, and the blast wave gave everyone nearby, including Steve, concussive brain injury. That explosion rolled through the years, haunting Steve for decades. ?Mulligan was like a ghost I grew up with,? Maharidge writes.
Demons didn?t just torture Maharidge?s father, though. In researching the book, Maharidge talked to dozens of his dad?s fellow Marines, most of whom had barely spoken about their service in Japan?even to their own families?in the many decades following the war. ?You have the myth of the ?good war?; I really feel it?s a myth,? says Maharidge. ?None of the guys I talked to called it a good war. They don?t use that language. We mythologize it. They came home to a hero?s welcome, they were embraced, they re-entered society in the great years in middle part of the last century. That mythology is dangerous, and today we like to do that, too, just as much. We have to look at the reality of war?what it means, what it does.?
Maharidge says he was particularly struck by how conservative about war many of the men in his dad?s company were when he spoke to them. ?One man said, ?We?re always at war, we?re an aggressive nation,? ? remembers Maharidge. Another man, who is politically conservative, told the author, ?If we thought about the survivors we would think twice about going to war.???Everyone I talked to for the book was anti-war,? notes Maharidge. ?These guys know what war is like. They don?t want to see more. One guy I saw two weeks ago reiterated to me how his grandson wanted to join the military after 9/11 and he told him not to go, said it?s not worth it. It?s surprising how anti-war these guys are and it was not a liberal or conservative thing.? And what would cause men in their 80s and 90s to make such strong statements, particularly about something they experienced nearly 70 years ago? ?It?s the nightmares, which recur as they get older?the horror became almost cinematic,? recounts Maharidge. ?A number of them told me, ?It never leaves you; you never get over it.? ?
There?s little reason to think today?s soldiers are any different in the trauma they experience. But there is more hope, in that we are beginning to appreciate the impact combat has on those who serve, and we?re getting somewhat better at figuring out how to mitigate that impact. Says Maharidge: ?The positive thing for today?s soldiers and kids, is that the men [in my dad?s company] who dealt with it the best are the ones who talked about it the most.? Simply put, Maharidge found that, ?the more you talk about it, the less it bothers you. You take the demon and expose it to light and it withers,? he explains. ?It?s the same for any victims of trauma today. If you talk about it with your family it makes it less harmful for you.?
The soldiers who dealt with the trauma of war the best were the ones who talked about it the most.
While opening up can help relieve depression, sadness, anxiety and feelings of isolation, it won?t resolve the damage that can occur with traumatic brain injury. ?The experts I talked to said that PTSD and TBI, which is physical damage to the brain, go hand in hand, they?re not separate,? Maharidge says. ?In my dad?s case, he probably did have PTSD and he had TBI. He would remember parts of the war and recall them in great, horrible detail in fragments. When he would scream and explode when us kids spilled water, that was the brain injury?that inappropriate emotional response.? These are experiences kids today are having too, just as Maharidge did decades ago. He wishes now that he?d been able to respond in a better way to his father?s explosive moments. ?There?s no treatment for TBI, that?s the sad thing,? he says, ?But I would recommend that [kids] bite their lip. I would yell back at my father and we?d have these huge fights. I would like to think now that I could let him rage and walk away, because you?re fighting with the brain injury. That?s not your dad or your mom.?
Reacting calmly and walking away from an angry outburst takes tremendous patience, of course, and it may be useful?once everyone?s calmed down?to gently try to get a veteran to open up. ?There were moments when my dad would talk. I realize now that I could have asked him questions,? says Maharidge. ?Don?t be afraid to talk to your parents, or to a vet. You can see the war-damaged person and try to be sympathetic.? In fact, that may be the single best thing any individual can do: Ask questions, when it seems appropriate, and listen. ?You may have a parent or uncle or aunt who was in the Gulf War who has issues,? Maharidge suggests. ?In our family circles there are veterans everywhere. Just talking to these veterans means a lot to them?The soldiers I talked to have a message for not just today?s soldiers but also the children of today?s soldiers. I grew up with a father who had TBI from the war; we didn?t know it was war-related. These old guys have something to say not just to today?s soldiers, but also to their kids.?
Do you think there needs to be more awareness of psychological and emotional impact of war on soldiers? What do you think about the link between TBI and suicide??
Related Stories on TakePart:
? Are PTSD Drugs Killing Veterans?
? Op-Ed: What?s Really Causing Most Traumatic Brain Injuries
? For America's Bravest, the Mission Continues on Veterans Day
Lorie A. Parch is a Los Angeles-based writer specializing in health and lifestyle topics.?Takepart.com
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By Leah Schnurr
NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. stocks continued their climb into uncharted territory on Friday, racking up the fourth week of gains in a row as encouraging economic data prompted investors to pick up shares of growth companies.
The Dow and the S&P 500 finished at fresh record highs, driven by gains in energy and industrial shares. The indexes have pushed to a series of never-before-seen levels as part of the rally that has lifted equities more than 16 percent for the year so far.
In a sign of how far the market has come, the S&P 500 is also about 1,000 points above the low hit in March 2009 in the wake of the credit crisis and recession. Shares picked up strength late in the day on Friday, with the S&P 500 rising 1 percent not long before the closing bell.
"It's hard to hold this market down," said Michael Sheldon, chief market strategist at RDM Financial in Westport, Connecticut.
Data showed Americans felt better about their economic and financial prospects in early May, with consumer sentiment at its highest in nearly six years, while a gauge of future economic activity rose in April to a near five-year high.
"If you believe the economy is going to gradually get better and that global growth will improve, the parts of the market that have not benefited so far, like cyclicals, will probably be the next group to outperform," Sheldon said.
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The S&P energy sector index gained 0.8 percent, with Exxon Mobil
The rate of growth in the U.S. economy has been expected to slow in the second quarter as tighter fiscal policy starts to bite. But recent improvement, including in the labor market and retail sales, has suggested the recovery remains resilient.
As slow as it is, "we are still recovering," said Doreen Mogavero, CEO of Mogavero, Lee & Co in New York. "The U.S. (market), for all its woes, is still the best place to be at this moment."
The Dow Jones industrial average gained 121.18 points, or 0.80 percent, to close at a record 15,354.40. The Standard & Poor's 500 Index rose 15.65 points, or 0.95 percent, to end at a record 1,666.12. The Nasdaq Composite Index climbed 33.72 points, or 0.97 percent, to finish at 3,498.97 - its highest close since October 2000.
Earlier in the session, the Dow touched an all-time intraday high at 15,357.40, while the S&P 500 rose to a record intraday high at 1,667.38.
For the week, the Dow advanced 1.6 percent, while the S&P 500 climbed 2 percent and the Nasdaq rose 1.8 percent.
For the year so far, the Dow has climbed 17.2 percent, while the S&P 500 has gained 16.8 percent and the Nasdaq has advanced 15.9 percent.
JPMorgan raised its year-end target for the S&P 500 to 1,715 from 1,580, implying a gain of just under 3.5 percent for the index for the rest of the year.
"We realize investors are apprehensive about making fresh money purchases, but we see the risk/reward as particularly attractive in Technology, Healthcare, and Financials," said the client note from JPMorgan's U.S. equity strategist Thomas Lee.
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Volume was roughly 6.31 billion shares on the New York Stock Exchange, the Nasdaq and the NYSE MKT, not far off the year-to-date average daily closing volume of 6.34 billion.
Advancers outnumbered decliners on the NYSE by a ratio of about 21 to 8. On the Nasdaq, 17 stocks rose for every eight that fell.
(Additional reporting by Rodrigo Campos; Editing by Jan Paschal)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/dow-p-end-records-stocks-score-fourth-week-204820167.html
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By Alexei Oreskovic
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Google staged four discussions expounding on the finer points of its "Glass" wearable computer during this week's developer conference. Missing from the agenda, however, was a session on etiquette when using the recording-capable gadget, which some attendees faithfully wore everywhere - including to the crowded bathrooms.
Google Glass, a cross between a mobile computer and eyeglasses that can both record video and surf the Internet, is now available to a select few but is already among the year's most buzz-worthy new gadgets. The device has geeks all aflutter but is unnerving everyone from lawmakers to casino operators worried about the potential for hitherto unimagined privacy and policy violations.
"I had a friend and we're sitting at dinner and about 30 minutes into it she said, 'You know those things freak me out,'" said Allen Firstenberg, a technology consultant at the Google developers conference. He has been wearing Glass for about a week but offered to take them off for the comfort of his dinner companion.
On another occasion, Firstenberg admitted to walking into a bathroom wearing his Glass without realizing it.
"Most of the day I totally forget it's there," he said.
Many believe wearable computers represent the next big shift in technology, just as smartphones evolved from personal computers. Apple and Samsung are said to be working on other forms of wearable technology.
The test version of Glass looks like a clear pair of eyeglasses with a hefty slab along the right side. Since it began shipping to a couple thousand carefully selected early adopters who paid about $1,500 for the device, it has inspired a bit of ridicule - from a parody on "Saturday Night Live" to a popular blog poking fun at its users.
Other industry experts take a more serious tack, pointing out the potential for misuse because Glass can record video far less conspicuously than a handheld device.
Glass also has won many fans. Google and some early users maintain that privacy fears are overblown. As with traditional video cameras, a tiny light blinks on to let people know when it is recording.
Several Glass wearers at the developers conference said they whip the device off in inappropriate situations, such as in gym locker rooms or work meetings. Michael Evans, a Web developer from Washington, D.C., attending the Google conference, said he removed his Glass when he went to the movies, even though the device would be ill-suited for recording a feature-length film.
"I just figured I don't want to be the first guy kicked out of the movies," he said.
NO GLASS ALLOWED
A stamp-sized electronic screen mounted on the left side of a pair of eyeglass frames, Glass can record video, access email, provide turn-by-turn driving directions and retrieve info from the Web by connecting wirelessly to a user's cell phone.
Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt dismissed concerns about the brave new world of wearable computers during a talk at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government in April.
"Criticisms are inevitably from people who are afraid of change or who have not figured out that there will be an adaptation of society to it," he said.
Schmidt acknowledged that there are certain places where Glass will not be appropriate but that he believed new rules of social etiquette will coalesce over time. Firstenberg said it will take time for all sides to get comfortable with the new technology.
"I don't think we should go into the conversation assuming that Glass is bad," he said.
Indeed, previous technology innovations such as mobile phones and wireless headsets that initially raised concerns are now subject to tacit rules of etiquette, such as not talking loudly on the bus and turning a ringer off in a meeting.
Still, some have decided to leave nothing to chance.
Casino operator Caesar's Entertainment recently announced that Glass is not permitted while gambling or when in showrooms, though guests can wear it in other areas. In March, Seattle's Five Point Cafe made headlines for becoming the first bar to ban Glass. "Respect our customers privacy as we'd expect them to respect yours," says a statement on the caf?'s website.
The California Highway Patrol says there is no law that explicitly forbids a driver from wearing Glass while driving in the state. But according to Officer Elon Steers, if a driver appears to be distracted as a result of the device, an officer can take enforcement action.
PRIVACY TRACK RECORD
Lawmakers are beginning to consider Glass.
On Thursday, eight members of the U.S. Congress sent a letter to Google Chief Executive Larry Page, asking for details about how Glass handles various privacy issues, including whether it is capable of facial recognition.
According to Google, there are no facial recognition technologies built into the device and it has no plans to do so "unless we have strong privacy protections in place."
During one of this week's conference sessions - an open discussion about Glass - members of the Glass team answered a question about privacy by noting that social implications and etiquette have been a big area of focus during the development of the product, which is still a test version.
Some of the Glass-phobia may stem from Google's own track record on privacy. In 2010, Google revealed that its fleet of Street View cars, which criss-cross the globe taking panoramic photos for the Google Maps product, also had captured personal information such as emails and web pages that were transmitted over unencrypted home wireless networks.
"The fact that it's Google offering the service, as opposed to say Brookstone, raises privacy issues," said Marc Rotenberg, the executive director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center, a non-profit privacy advocacy group, citing Google's history and its scale in Internet advertising.
Rotenberg says his main concern centers on the stream of data collected by the devices - everything from audio and video to a user's location data - going to Google's data centers.
Ryan Calo, a University of Washington law professor who specializes in privacy and technology, said Glass is not very different from other technologies available today, whether it is a smartphone or "spy" pens that secretly record audio. But Glass is on people's faces, so it feels different.
"The face is a really intimate place and to have a piece of technology on it is unsettling," Calo said. "Much as a drone is unsettling because we have some ideas of war."
For all the hand-wringing, some early adopters are sold.
Ryan Warner, who recently graduated from college and who has developed a recipe app for Glass with Evans, said he was surprised by the reaction he got when he went to a bar.
"I was like, ?I don't know if I should have it on or not.' I was kind of in that phase," he said, "and the bouncer was like, ?Oh, my god, is that Google Glass?' He was excited."
(Reporting By Alexei Oreskovic, with additional reporting by Susan Zeidler in Los Angeles and Aaron Pressman in Boston; Editing by Bill Trott)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/googles-wearable-glass-gadget-cool-creepy-140848988.html
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While "Jimmy Kimmel Live" isn't necessarily known for its sweet approach to babies or children (Kimmel routinely exhorts parents to prank their kids and capture it on camera for yuks), on Thursday night he managed to blend a spoof of "The Bachelor/The Bachelorette" with a clutch of toddler actors that was, well, downright adorable.
In a spoof of the long-running ABC reality series "The Bachelor," Kimmel lent his voice to a "preview" of a "new" series, "The Baby Bachelor," in which Wesley, a very young man just looking for a play date has to choose between a collection of similarly youthful ladies. And they're just as much of a handful as their grown-up counterparts, as demonstrated by the lovely blonde who just can't stop crying. Wesley not only gives her a hug but a peck on the cheek, to no avail.
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Then of course there's always one: 35-month-old Jesse is a "stay-at-home daughter" who is "looking for a sugar daddy."
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