Dee's Role Model

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Dee Dee's MSP did not allow her to follow Kant’s idea of universal law; therefore, she did not satisfy her role as a mother. She only tricked people into thinking she was accomplishing her duties. Rob Blanchard, Gypsy's father, trusted Dee Dee as a mother, thus leaving Gypsy's health in her hands. He describes the various illnesses that she told him that Gypsy had,
Right from birth, three months old, Dee Dee was telling me she (Gypsy) had sleep apnea and she needed a breathing machine…which till this day I don’t know if that is real or not… It escalated from then, problems with her eyes, hearing, her digestive system, after that Gypsy couldn’t walk anymore. She had a muscular disorder.
Rob believed that Dee Dee

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