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Also this month, the tabs implicitly pose the question: Can love flourish again once the restraining order has expired?
Ellen Barkin will, one day soon (if there's a God in heaven, and Revlon's stock continues to plummet as a feckless addlepated heir drives a once-thriving company into the ground with his big bald head) be changing her name to Ellen Cohen, if I can just get the judge to lift that restraining order.
But restraining himself, he seems too restrained.
I've been hit with a restraining order prohibiting me from finishing the sentence."
The statistics might seem cold, but it's impossib le to remain complacent after meeting someone like Katherine -- or a family who has been left homeless by an illegal eviction, a senior who lost his home to foreclosure from a crooked loan transaction, or a domestic violence victim unable to navigate the courts to get a restraining order.