Who gets the bouquet?
In a victory for platonic asexual love everywhere, the head of the Manson Family will soon achieve wedded bliss, and not even the same-sex kind, and in California! Isn't America Wonderful - The National Organization for Marriage has yet to comment on another affirming symbol of teh non-gay family values. The biggest question will be where they will be
registered: Solingen, Henckels, or Smith & Wesson come to mind.
Charles Manson plans to marry a 26-year-old woman who left her Midwestern home and spent the past nine years trying to help exonerate him.
Afton Elaine Burton, the raven-haired bride-to-be, said she loves the man convicted in the notorious murders of seven people, including pregnant actress Sharon Tate.....
However, as a life prisoner with no parole date, Manson is not entitled to family visits, a euphemism for conjugal visits.
So why would Burton marry him under those conditions?
She said she is interested in working on his case, and marrying him would allow her to get information not available to nonrelatives.
Their story is one for the ages. At 19, Star left her town on the Mississippi River and moved to Corcoran, California to be closer to her Manson. In addition to the sacrifices she made, Star shows her devotion to Manson through romantic gestures like carving an x into her forehead, which almost matches the x that Manson had originally but has since converted into a swastika. If she had carved in a swastika I would have been worried that maybe she was a little crazy or in a co-dependent relationship. But the x says “boundaries.”