Mary Kay Letourneau

(Gig Harbor, Washington) The exact date and time are being kept secret, however, sometime in the next few days (tomorrow is a safe bet), Mary Kay Letourneau will have paid her debt to society and will be released from prison. One has to wonder if the six and one-half years in prison for child rape has changed her mind about anything. My take is that it probably hasn't.

The 12-year-old sixth grader she was convicted of raping is now a 21-year-old adult and I suspect he has changed his mind on many things during Letourneau's incarceration. The years between ages 12 and 21 are a period of constant emotional, physical, and intellectual change. She's now a weathered and, likely bitter, 40-year-old ex-convict who must register as a sex offender. He's just starting his adulthood in a culture predominated by permissiveness and promiscuity. I don't see them hooking up again, other than maybe one night of being neighborly for old times' sake.

I must mention that everybody apparently disagrees with me. All that I've read recently has emphatically indicated the two will be a permanent item soon. I don't see it happening.

With regard to sexual molestation of youth, it's curious that Amy Fisher, The Long Island Lolita, is publishing her autobiography coincidentally with sexual molester Letourneau's release from the slammer. Fisher also spent some years in prison for shooting Joey Buttafuoco's wife. I'm certain there's no connection between Letourneau and Fisher but, I think it's interesting for both to be in the news at the same time after so many years.

Maybe they're predestined to be sisters in spirit.