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Show Nadalee Noble's journal the conclusion Park Record Thursday, August 16, 1990 Page A5 Continued from A4 March 28, 1989 ,.."It has been a very hard yet a wonderful winter, i Don didn't get much wood In and the house was always cold. We bought coal but it didn't burn well in the heater and we used only a small stove.the outside temp often teu to -w and the temp in the house often did not get much above 40F... ..;"We have had no running water in the house at all and the creek froz over so all the water we had Don brought in lues from town Often the tolets were left unflushed, my plants came near death and I , gave up trying to save the ivy and the fig tree. the whole house was dirty, clothes went unwashed, only those we had to have were taken out to Amys house or washed out in anyway could be. Bedding went for weeks without change. I took the kids to the swimming pool at the school where they let us shower for free 3 times a week. Don would not go and he often smelled so bad we could hardly be in the same room. I was glad to be at work at the hotel where it was warm and clean, the kids were glad to be in school... ...With all the hard times that the winter has brought it has also brought me a happyness and an understanding that I don't know how to put into words... ...During the school year I have had to take Monaca to school she starts at 8:00 and my job doesn't start untell 9:00 so Una, Amy and I started going to the coffee shop for an hour before work.. .it has become the high point of my whole day..; ...Our different ages and problems pro-blems seems to have bound us together into a family of our own. We have all found a love and ex-ceptence ex-ceptence that we can not find in our own homes. When we are together we are all truly free... ...I know that nothing lasts and good things are the hardest to hold on to and last the shortest time... Oct. 16, 1989 ."My nerves are thin, my belly feels no need for food, but I'm trying try-ing to keep a few things in it. I don't want to get run down. I can't stand to have Don touch me. He malls, rubs, sucks and holds me to (lhim. he body he is using is dead. I , can not stand to stay in it. Don doesn't care if I'm there or not. It is an odd feeling to mentily leave your body. Once when I got up in the morning I was surprised to find the bed and room had not changed. I look older when I look in the mirror mir-ror I don't like it... I would rather be dead than stay like this with Don... I am numb... I feel empty. ...I want to get my mind back together and make life good for the kids... I can do it. I will. " February 17, 1990 ... It is odd how in just one week I have become so atached to this place and my own little room. I can see why so many people chose to stay. I would not like to stay here, I'm real excited about fixing up my ' little apartment, it realy is a nice v1qa onf T Imo it olroarlv But I think I will also be sad to leave here. It is safe.it is a place of my own where I can go in and lock the world out. It is warm and privet and I have everything I need and more I have so few things il.i 1 . U-l 1 ma l eacn une is specnei aim militant mili-tant to me. this little room is my very own place. I realy miss the kids, mostly Lanette. Jason and Monaca are older and I know they can make it... ...tomorrow I am going back to work and I'm realy glad. I'm realy lucky. So many of these women up here are so full of hate and anger. I don't feel that yet. I realy feel sorry for Don. Even when he was telling me he was going to kill me and why I could only feel sorry for him becuase he was so wrong about me, he knows so little about my feelings or even about me at all. he is so mixed up, I could tell he was hurting so bad and he didn't need to be. Wh.it a sorry thing he is, and how foolish. I was thinking if he could only hear what he was saying he would know how ridiculose it all was. I wish he would go to a counsler or even if he had a real friend to talk to I tried to tell him but he could not hear me. I hope he is cooling off..." Ten days later, the day Nadalee moved out of the Women's Shelter, she left work to buy groceries and to meet her children at her new apartment in Heber. Donald, who had been served with divorce papers that afternoon, drove to Albertsons market, stalked his wife and shot and killed her. Donald Noble was tried and found guilty of second degree murder on June 15. He was sentenced in July to serve five years to life with a five year weapons enhancement and a judicial recommendation that he not be released during his lifetime. Noble is currently in the Utah State Penitentiary. Postscript: At a cocfetail party last week, a man I don't know very well asked me how writing this series was affecting me. "Do you find yourself talking to Nadalee?" he asked. And I was surprised at his perception. Yes. I have found myself telling her not to accept her situation. I cheer her when she starts to become her own woman. And I encourage en-courage her when she starts to break away. "You can make it," I whispered to her late one night. I was reading her journals in a remote cabin in ( v ) " ... .-. i t ...... . Nadalee 1989 the woods and it was nearly midnight mid-night when I opened a manila envelope in which she kept special newspaper articles. I looked over her clippings of the Marion standoff involving her friends the Singers, and I found stories I had written then, and photos J had taken. It appears ap-pears Nadalee had read my words too. It was an eerie feeling sitting there in the moonlight in this cabin with no telephone and no running water to wonder in what other ways our lives may have crossed. There is one other thing Nadalee and I shared for nearly eight years I stayed in an abusive relationship rela-tionship in California. And then my children's father repeatedly threatened to kill me, even after I divorced him. I realized, eventually, eventual-ly, I had to leave more than the marriage I had to leave the state. I ran away to a place I had visited once, for four days on a fall vacation. vaca-tion. I ran away to Park City in hopes of starting a new life. For years the only two people who knew about the situation were my minister and my lawyer. I was far too embarrassed to tell anyone else. I have been writing here now for eleven years and Nadalee's story has been the most frustrating project pro-ject I have ever done. I know how frightening it is to be in an abusive situation, I know it is painful and .-. - n : 1 '""i i t V "f 9 " " " """ f Tv. M k Three of Nadalee's five children from left to right: Monaca, Amy and Lanette. Not pictured, Trina and Jason. 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