By now you’ve heard the news –
80-year-old convicted mass-murderer Charles Manson has been granted a marriage
license to wed his TWENTY-SIX-YEAR-OLD fiancé, Afton Elaine Burton, or, as
Manson calls her, Star. Charles Manson has found someone who is willing to
marry him, but I – an attractive, educated, well-traveled woman who can cook at
least five things – am still left searching halfheartedly for love once in a
while.
Oh well, I guess it could be
worse – I could be marrying Charles fucking Manson.
The future
Mrs. Manson told CNN that she and Manson already consider themselves husband
and wife, even though “the paperwork hasn’t gone through yet.”
The couple hasn’t set a date for the wedding yet. In fact, it seems like Ms. Burton had some trouble getting Charles Manson to commit to marriage – and now I need a minute because that, dear readers, is a phrase I never thought I’d ever type. Wow.
Anyway, as I was saying, Manson
was apparently reluctant to marry, having gone on the record in December 2013
to call rumors of his impending wedding to Ms. Burton “a
bunch of garbage.” Personally, if someone asked a guy I was planning to
marry if we were really getting married and he replied that it was a bunch of
garbage, I would stop planning to marry him, but what do I know, I’m not
marrying Charles fucking Manson.
Ms. Burton first
started corresponding with Charles Manson when she was 17. Later, she moved
from her parents’ home in Illinois to Corcoran, CA to be close to Charles
Manson’s prison, where she has been visiting him since 2007 and dating him
since she was 19. I'm not sure, but I think this might mean that Charles Manson is this girl's first love. What's she going to tell the next guy? You would think being Charles Manson's widow would make you undateable, but somebody married Amy Fisher so I guess it takes all kinds. Burton talks to Manson on the phone “almost every day,” according
to CNN, and visits him on the weekends. Because Charles Manson is serving a life sentence, the pair won't be able to enjoy conjugal visits when they get married -- if they go through with it, that is. Personally, I’ve got my money on Charles
Manson getting cold feet.
Even though she won’t be able to
have conjugal visits with an 80-year-old man (her loss, I’m sure), Ms. Burton
wants to marry Charles Manson because she believes he’s innocent and wants to
work on his release, and there are “certain things next of kin can do,” like access
documents and information about his case that, she believes, would allow her to
prove his innocence. When asked by an incredulous CNN reporter if she was in
love with Charles Manson, Ms. Burton responded that she was, to which the
reporter replied, “People get married for all kinds of reasons.” AHAHAHAHAHA.
Ms. Burton and Charles Manson’s
other followers – holy shit you guys, Charles Manson still has followers,
plural! – insist that all he wants to do is save the trees, which is noble and
all, but when you’ve masterminded the murders of seven people, I think that
harms your credibility as an environmentalist a bit. In her downtime from working on proving Charles
Manson’s innocence, his fiancé maintains his websites, which I’m not going to link to or visit, because I’m afraid to.
The parents of the bride will not
be attending the wedding. They have made it clear to their daughter that Manson
won’t be welcome in their home, although somehow I don’t think that will be an
issue. Ms. Burton’s father, Phil, told
the Daily Mail he and his wife would never disown their daughter, “no matter
what she does in her life.” There are still parents tossing their gay kids out
onto the street, but this guy can bring himself to stand behind his daughter
even though she’s marrying Charles Manson. There’s a lesson to be learned here,
folks.
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| And shockingly, it's NOT "don't hang around with Charles Manson." Although, you know, don't. |
