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In January 2025 I was chatting to a man briefly on an app. I liked him and he suggested meeting up. Things were going fine, we talked about expectations etc. prior to meeting. He also mentioned that he’d had a stillborn baby in his last relationship. It left me speechless but I offered a lot of empathy. After that admission, he retreated a few days later and said he didn’t see us going anywhere, which contradicted everything we’d chatted about and our similar values.

Fast forward to September, he reached out again and we ended up chatting for a couple of months every day. He arranged a date with me. The pace was slower this time, we didn’t jump right into talking about the serious stuff. Consistency was there, he was incredibly kind. We met for the first date and it was nice. We laughed, he told me a little more about what he’s been through (loss of brother, rehab, stillborn baby, loss of partner, rehab and then turning his life around). We made physical contact and hugged and he told me I looked lovely. He arranged a second date before the first ended and I met him again. We chatted a bit more, not too much in-depth but enough for me to know he liked me. We admitted we liked and were attracted to each other. We hugged again and before that date was over he arranged the third. We met for our third and went to the cinema. When he said goodbye I could feel more closeness in his hug and goodbye. This time he never arranged a fourth date.

I noticed more intimacy in his replies after this date and he said he hadn’t been sure whether to kiss me. I said I was happy for that to unfold naturally. But after the kiss question? I noticed a slight stall, things weren’t moving. When I asked if he still had time for dating, he deflected the question back to me and side-stepped. Basically saying we’d been busy and that distance doesn’t help along with us not being ‘excited’ to talk to each other. A bizarre reply, because it contradicted his actions completely.

The shooting happened December 6th, 2018.

Marshae Jones (27) was shot during an argument at a store with another young woman named Ebony Jemison (23). Marshae Jones was unarmed. However, her child did not survive.

Jones was recently arrested, and she's being held on a $50,000 bond in Alabama for starting the argument. Ebony Jemison had the charges of manslaughter dismissed against her since the grand jury failed to indict her. She will not be arrested or charged at all.

Alabama's reasoning is that it was her job to protect her unborn child, and by engaging in the argument at all, she caused herself to get shot. Therefore, it's her fault she lost her child.

As you can probably imagine, most people think that's ridiculous. But it does make people wonder if women stop becoming people and instead just incubators while they are pregnant. For example, if a woman gets in a car accident, but she wasn't wearing a seatbelt and loses the baby, will she go to jail for manslaughter? What if she drinks before knowing she was pregnant, and it causes her to lose her child? What if she doesn't get adequate prenatal care because she didn't have health insurance or she wasn't aware she was pregnant for several months so the baby has defects or is stillborn?


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