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To: gypsy who wrote (5977)	2/21/2000 7:18:00 PM
From: Lola	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6545

His elevator doesn't go all the way to the top? Gee why did it take me so long to figure that one out? I couldn't decide exactly what that could mean but the abuse part gave me a clue.<ggg> Lola:)

To: gypsy who wrote (5977)	2/21/2000 7:34:00 PM
From: KM	Respond to of 6545

What's the difference between that and these catalogs of Russian or Filipino women who are "for sale"? It's all incredibly degrading and attracts a predictable type of "gentleman". That comment will probably get me in trouble <G>

To: gypsy who wrote (5977)	2/23/2000 2:13:00 PM
From: Mike 2.0	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6545

Game Show Bride Plans to Annul Marriage (This appeared today from Netscape home page news link...And re abuse charges from ex-fiance, how did that fail to surface before this fiasco? What, no background check on this guy?! No doubt the other 49 women, especially the other 4 finalists, are feeling like they dodged a bullet! FWIW, I hope she bounces back from this...Cheers, Mike) WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The game show bride from the top rated ``Who Wants to Marry a Multimillionaire' program said on Wednesday she had made a terrible error in judgement and would get her television marriage annulled. In her first interview since the Fox show turned the television newlyweds into an overnight tabloid sensation last week, 34-year-old Darva Conger told ABC the union was not consummated and she had gone on the show for a ``lark.' ``Never in a million years did I think of it as an actual marriage in my heart and before God and I still don't,' Conger told ABC's ``Good Morning America'. ``I was not looking to marry anyone. I committed an error in judgement. I didn't look at the ramifications,' she said, adding that the marriage would ``absolutely' be annulled and she would not keep the ring. ``I have worked my whole life to be a credible person, a person of integrity. I think my resume does speak for itself. Unfortunately in two hours I destroyed much of that credibility,' she added. Conger, a Gulf War veteran, honors student and emergency room nurse, was chosen by TV groom Rick Rockwell from five finalists in wedding gowns and then married him in front of 16 million viewers at the end of the show. ``I wish I would have had the moral fortitude at that point to walk away, but there was incredible pressure,' she said. Conger said she had felt a commitment to the show's producers who had spent millions on the show and decided to go through with the nuptials. Public outcry followed the public marriage and soon after leaving for their Caribbean honeymoon, the groom was accused of violence by a past fiance. Embarrassed by the negative publicity, Fox canceled a rerun of the show. Conger said she could not comment on reports Rockwell had been violent with a previous girlfriend, an allegation he has strongly denied. ``I don't know him very well,' she said. Rockwell, a 42-year-old comedian and real estate developer, said in an interview on Tuesday with NBC, that he would also probably have the marriage annulled. The TV bride said she had cried all the way to her 'chaperoned honeymoon' in Barbados where the couple stayed in separate cabins and did not spend a moment alone together. ``I never, ever, considered having a sexual relationship with him, just as I would not consider having a sexual relationship with anyone I had just met,' she said. ``Marriage didn't okay that. I would hope my moral fiber, which I actually do have quite a bit of despite what has been bandied about the press, would never let me do something like that.' Conger said she was not attracted to Rockwell and had told him almost immediately how she felt. ``The minute I could take a deep breath and think, I took him aside and said: 'Listen I don't have these feelings for you',' she said. Conger said she had felt very uncomfortable around her new husband and spent most of her time with the female chaperon. The couple returned from their honeymoon separately. ``He's just not a person that I would ordinarily have a friendly relationship with.' Conger said she had not received any financial gain during or after the show and that she did not need the groom's money. She supports both her mother and her brother, who has cerebral palsy. ``I work hard to support my mom and my brother. I don't need anyone else's money, I don't want anyone else's money. I just want my life back,' she said. Conger said the show contacted her after a friend gave her name to the producers and that she never, ever thought she would be chosen. When she was chosen, Conger said she was at first terrified and then horrified when the groom gave her a lingering kiss. ``I would like to think that someone who had respect for me in a romantic way and cared about me as a person would have shown me a little more courtesy and kissed me on the cheek,' said Conger. ``That's what I would have hoped for.' Conger said she was shocked by the tabloid storm which followed the marriage. ``I'm just a girl who works in an emergency room who made a mistake.'