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Submitted by Colin, Feb 26, 2007 12:37

"I may have missed something, but it sounded as if the one of the commune's children, Tesilya Hanauer, who went off with the Shiva Lila when they did, did so of her own free will."

You did miss something. She says explicitly that, being 5 years old at the time, what was foremost in her mind was just to be with her mother. She then recounts a pretty harrowing episode of being traipsed through the developing world for years. If you are going to be critical, you at least have a duty to be careful.

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