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The stuck up LW is so impressed by her boyfriend's thick wallet (yes, they are rich...please read her fawning description of their lifestyle...if they aren't fabulously wealthy, she desperately wants to leave the impression that they are) that she's willing to overlook his daughter living in the same building and being totally neglected by him on this scale! What can we hope for from her? Nothing! She's a selfish skank who is into the guy's fortune--nothing else.
I'm not convinced the nanny is this lovely lady she describes, either. A nanny can raise a well-adjusted child by herself, and many do. The child sounds passive-agressive and overly compliant--both signs that the nanny may be controlling and even abusive in private (it happens). The nanny wants the child back, but the child doesn't seem to want to--and she left the nanny in the first place and tried to move in with her parents--why? Something is fishy here.
But the LW and her boyfriend both have their heads so deep into their own asses that they'd never know.
Tragic story with no good endings. It's already too late, and the personalities involved are too warped.
Also I'm not so sure about the mom--what, did she just walk off, screaming and foaming at the mouth, leaving the child on a street in Bombay? I somehow don't think so, although this is the way this LW breathlessly tells it. Did she marry or get a job abroad, leaving the child in the care of the father or sending her back to him? More likely, I somehow think. I just get this impression that the LW is a liar and a drama queen--the daughter is to ugly to ever marry? Really? Gahhhhh. Also, it sounds a little third world to suggest that you are saddled with a daughter until she marries.
This letter was written by a real hyena, I'm afraid. Nanny doesn't sound much better, and Papa is the worst of the lot. Poor Anna!
