"I finally started talking a little bit," Trudy recalls. "I would ask her why she would want to come and see me.
Jason bolted from his mother, Trudy Allen, on Dec. 23 as he was being admitted to a treatment center for children with emotional problems.
Since Janice, I know what a relationship is." Trudy wanted to return to the hospital.
"I did everything I could to sabotage the relationship," Trudy says. "I wouldn't talk to her sometimes when she came."
"Compeer is the best anti-depressant in the world," Trudy says.
"I wouldn't have missed this for the world," said Trudy Ward Stalbird Terry, 78, of Enfield, as 38 former residents who had been at the Farewell Ball led the Grand March around the hall.
Trudy Richter, a German Communist whose nationality couldn't save her, remembers the filthy, crowded ferry ride from Vladivostok to Magadan, and her husband who never returned.
Jerry Marcus, who draws the syndicated cartoon "Trudy," has been charged with sexually assaulting a 10-year-old girl, police said.
Married at age 18, Trudy had a son at 19. But the marriage fell apart after about eight years.
Now 41, Trudy today weighs 155 pounds.
"Giving makes them feel good," said Trudy Sullivan, a Red Cross spokeswoman in Portland.
Relatives of Thompson and his wife, Trudy, who were shot at their home, said they decided to use the anniversary of the killing to do something for victims' relatives.
In conversation, they learned each had married on July 9. On Monday, Frank and Trudy Bouma celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary; Frank and Nella Bouma celebrated their 55th.