We recently stumbled upon a Flickr set called: "The Changeling." At first, it just seemed to be a run-of-the-mill group of scanned photographs documenting an American family in the 1950s and 1960s (ok, yeah: with a strange set title, no doubt). But then, the more we clicked through this set the more we noticed all of its bizarre and, well...agressive image tags. From these tags and from the images' lengthy captions we began to piece together an intense family drama, unfolding before our eyes in all its (publicly-viewable) Flickr glory.
See a bit for yourself. Take a look, for example, at this screenshot of tags from one single image from the set:
Those tags come from this image:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/strobis/2454925578/in/set-72157606994681036/
From these tags we can discern that this is a story of heartbreak, of sibling rivalry run amok, and of mouthwash addiction! Yep. See, allegedly, the little girl in this picture had a pretty wild childhood mouthwash habit. An excerpt from one of the captions says this:
_____ looks almost human here. It's hard for people to believe this, but ______ spent much of her childhood drinking Lavoris mouthwash straight from the bottle. My parents didn't have a clue this was happening until the day they saw her drunk and unable to walk a straight line. The bad news: ______ blamed her later alcoholism on our mother for failing to notice that she was addicted to Lavoris as a child. The good news: ____'s breath throughout her early childhood was cinnamony-fresh.
I'm not making this up. _____ would have Lavoris tea parties with me and _____, pouring each of us a small cup. ______ and I understandably found this shit undrinkable, so _____ would just help herself to our share. Not sipping it either -- throwing it down.
Thankfully, we get a sort of response from her about this calumny. See, the other amazing part of this feud is that the brother also cuts and pastes portions of the sister's emails right into the captions of the images on Flickr. So we get some of the other side, albeit filtered. For example, here he quotes her as saying about him:
YOUR DEPRESSION WAS CAUSED BY YOUR WEAKNESS TO USE AND TO CONTINUE TO USE, ILLEGAL DRUGS, MAGIC MUSHROOOMS, COCAINE, ETC. I REMEMBER A FRIEND TELLING ME, THAT SHE KNEW YOU IN COLLEGE AND A QUEENS COLLEGE PROFESSOR GOT YOU TO EAT MORE THAN TOMATO SOUP AND FRUIT COCKTAIL.....
So, let me get this straight. Apparently the script goes like this:
Brother: I hate you. You're crazy! And it's because of all the mouthwash you used to drink as a kid.
Sister: I hate you more. And you're crazier than I am because of all the tainted tomato soup and fruit cocktail you used to eat in college.
Brother: I hate you most. And to prove it I'm going to post all this on the web.
I wonder who would have had a better blog: the Hatfields or the McCoys?
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lavoris at age 3 , can kill.
the mother continued abusing daughter by telling this story over and over again, thru her childhood. mother drank while pregnant with 3 of the 4 children. this can cause lots of health problems. mother humiliated children in front of other people. mother was bibolar and addictive personality. she was addicted to oxycontin at age 78. was eating a bottle of pills a day. conned 3 drs. to give her the pills. at at 84 she was still desiring the drug and admitted that she loved it.
she didnt take care of her children , like most parents with drug or alcohol problems. she drank scotch to take a sleeping pill at night.
ferret is a drug addict. started using weed in high school, then lsd, cocaine, he was so thin in college that a professor from queens when he was at davidson got him to eat other than fruit cocktail and tomato soup. he barely got out of college and dropped out one semester. his mom made him to to summer school to grad. with his class.
all this may be funny to you, but lavoris should have been kept in a locked closet. children copy what their parents do, right-=- smoke or drink is learned at home.
he cant get high on pot anymore because of his brain change.
he is on large mg. of zoloft and still depressed. zoloft is now used for a lot of people who are bipolar.
this story is half true.
he threw easter chicks from the third floor to see if they could fly.what does that tell you and he was 3 yrs old.
so take his story with a grain of salt. he has vulgar remarks against women in the urban dictionary . i wouldnt want to be his friend as a woman. he is vulgar and disgusting and why his pretty and talented woman, does not see what a total waste he is.
i dont know. he doesnt know that i have had 3 neck operations and have to have another for a neck tumor. so, why should i care.
he is full of hate and his problems are his. he has never been responsbile for himself.
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