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"A Bed to Kill For" - College Essays

"A Bed to Kill For"

Ashanti Johnson
Miss Guidry
English IV (H)
November 25, 2011

"A Bed to Kill For"

On the night of March 9, 1977, Francine Hughes poured gasoline around the bed where her former husband laid in his own drunken filth. She then lit a match, sending the bed along with her former husband up in flames. By the time fire fighters arrived to the home, Francine had driven to the county jail and announced hysterically, "I did it!" A year later at her trial, a jury of ten women and two men heard how Mickey Hughes had beaten his wife mercilessly for 14 years and had threatened her with death if she tried to leave him. Their surprising verdict -- not guilty by reason of temporary insanity -- ...

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wife. For Farrah, the TV docudrama provides the most challenging role of her career. For Francine, now 37, it tells only half the story. Francine, who left school and married Mickey Hughes at 18-years-old states, "I thought he was so sophisticated. He had his own car and most people I knew didn't." The physical abuse began just weeks after the wedding. "I bought some new clothes and he ripped them off me. I don't know whether I looked too pretty or what, but he didn't want me to look that way," Francine says. "I was shocked, because I had never been treated like that before. But what do you do when you are 16 years old and you had to beg your parents to let you get married? Of course he said, 'I'm sorry. Forgive me, it will never happen again,' and I believed him. But it did happen again, and by that time I was pregnant and felt like I had to make the best of it."
She devoted herself to her four children for the sake of the marriage lasting. Meanwhile, Mickey drifted from ...

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