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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Tonya needs to forgive her mother and quit feeling sorry for herself. She had two arms and two legs. She still sounds so sarcastic. Oh, poor Tanya had to go to a mall in Portland, Oregon to practice on the ice skating ring. [/quote]

Absolutely.  Tonya's mom probably had a pretty rough upbringing, herself, and likely did the best she knew how to do for her daughter.

Tonya wound up with a life so full of promise and she just tossed it all into the garbage.  She was around the best figure skaters in the world, she had people wanting to help her to succeed.  Instead she chose to hang around a bunch of low life imbeciles.  You can lead a horse to water....[/quote]

... [b]yeah you all need to Google 'cycle of poverty'[/b][/quote]

Also cycle of abuse.  Hopefully Tonya won't continue that.  She is admittedly in a "blue collar" relationship/marriage now, but hopefully has grown up a bit, to se what to do differently with her own child.  I fully realize that not all blue collar people beat their children, but to not believe how bad Tonya's mother really was, is to feed into the problem.   Everyone seems to have fallen in love with Oksana's story and youth (cuteness), myself included.  Tonya was a great athlete, she just p*ssed it away. I found the movie and the special interesting - it is a life that hopefully most of us will never know, so the insights were thought provoking.  Doesn't mean she wasn't guilty, but it all made sense, given her background. I have always felt Nancy deserved gold, but in retrospect, she just doesn't seem very grateful or likable. Plus, it is sometimes hard not to root for the underdog, and want better for Tanya.  I do believe her mother was that bad, and they might have held back a bit on how bad she really was.  If you you have never seen an abusive situation, this was one. [/quote]

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