by Sila Anton

Created on: September 30, 2008

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Thank you ladies and gentleman and welcome back to our show, for those of you just joining us, today we have a family in turmoil. A stepmother has lost all control of her rebellious stepdaughter.

Our guest today is her royal majesty the Queen; she is here today to confront her step daughter, Snow White. According to the Queen, Snow White is currently living with seven men!

"Your majesty, so nice to have you here, why don't you tell us what is going on".

"Thank you Dr. Bill, I am at my wits end, I really need your help.

My step daughter Snow White ran away about six months ago. She and I have always had our fair share of problems. Her father passed away when she was very young, and she hasn't fully accepted that he is gone. I think that she blames me for his death, but I had nothing to do with it. Her father was a drinker and he had a chronic heart condition. He was a good man and I tried very hard to get him to take care of himself but he just wouldn't. Finally, his lifestyle just caught up with him.

After his death, she became really difficult to deal with. And I'm not going to lie, I had a slight breakdown and I wasn't easy to deal with either. But I pulled myself together for her sake. I sent her to several therapists but she stopped going to see them after the first visit. I think that she is just more comfortable being angry at the world than accepting that her father is gone. She has developed a dream world that she lives in most of the time. She would just lie around staring out the window or singing at the water well, all day long. She refused to do anything else. She stopped talking to me completely; she would rather have conversations with birds and chipmunks than talk to me.

One of her therapists suggested a structured lifestyle. He said it would help to get her into a routine and out of the depressive state that she is in but that didn't work at all. I gave her some small chores, nothing too hard. She has to clean her room and take out the garbage, that kind of thing. I also made school mandatory, something her father never did.

That is when things started to get really bad. She refused to do the chores and she hated going to school. Snow White would run away to the meadows or the pond almost daily. It got so bad that the principal threatened to suspend her, so I started home schooling her. On the 29th I had sent her into the forest with my woodsman to get a botany lesson and that is when she ran away. She knows those woods so well, and he didn't think to keep a closer eye on her. He turned his back for a second and she was gone and I haven't seen or heard from her since.

Well at least until about 2 months ago, a really good friend of the family told me that he had seen Snow White. He said that she was living in a cottage in the woods with seven men! Dr. Bill I don't know what to do, seven men! If it was that Prince fellow that she was always swooning after, I would understand but why seven men? Apparently they all live together in one cottage. I don't know what kind of arrangement they have but why would seven grown men want a teenage girl living alone with them in a cottage, if they didn't have something bad in mind. I just want her to come home."

"Thank you for your story your highness, but I think we should talk to Snow White. And we will, after this commercial break."

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