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Spitzer's Daughters

I want to talk about Spitzer's daughters. What happens to them now? I'm hoping Silda will file for divorce as early as humanly possible. But the daughters, who I think are 14, 16, and 18—the oldest a mere four years younger than the whore whom daddy was banging.

All I can imagine is this: If I were one of them and my father ever tried to say anything at all parental to me (Where are you going? With whom? When are you coming home? You can't wear that; it's too provocative), it would be all I could do not to shoot back: What's that you say, whore-monger?

How do you raise a teenage daughter after being caught up in such a thing?