Love You More: The Taylor Behl Story this question feed

asked by csean85 on November 16, 2006 8:21 PM
A true story of a devastating loss, a mother's love, and the search for justice in the face of heartbreak

On September 7, 2005, at 3:30 in the morning, the phone rang at the home of Janet Pelasara, in Vienna, Virginia. The call was from a police officer at Virginia Commonwealth University, where Janet's seventeen-year-old daughter, Taylor Behl, had just begun freshman year. Taylor had not been seen since Monday evening, the officer told Pelasara. Within hours, Pelasara was on her way to the campus in Richmond, and two days later her frantic search led her to the door of the man who would later be charged and convicted of Taylor's murder. His name was Ben Fawley. "You don't know anything about your daughter," he said. "She's not the good little girl you think she is."

One night several months earlier, Pelasara had walked into Taylor's room to use her computer. Ben Fawley had been on-line, trying to find Taylor, and Pelasara was quick to identify herself as Taylor's mother. "Now that Taylor will be going to VCU, I hope you will keep an eye out for her," she wrote. "She's only seventeen and this is her first time on her own."

"I'll be glad to," Fawley wrote back.

Love you More is a story that will resonate for parents everywhere. Each year, thousands of mothers and fathers leave their children at unfamiliar college campuses, where they are expected to begin the first phase of their journey into adulthood. And each year, on the drive home, already missing them, these same parents hope and pray that their children will adapt and thrive.

It is also a story that will resonate for students everywhere. In this day and age, where cyberspace has become the place to stay in touch with friends and meet new people, we seldom stop to think that we may be saying too much, and to too many. Before you type that revealing entry, it's wise to ask, Who's watching?




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I studied the Taylor Behl case since the day she was taken, I have looked at her MySpace profile as well as her LiveJournal, I felt intense sadness for her and her family and anger towards her killer, Ben Fawley... and I literally gasped when I saw this book on the rack in B&N...

I got the book on a Tuesday, I finished the book 3 days later, it was an incredibly easy read, due to the simplistic yet emotional language used throughout the book... Janet writes through the outlook of a heart-broken mother whose heart will never be repaired, and she does a great job portraying her pain and anguish...

Though the content of the book is incredibly rich in emotion and detail into Taylor's life and Janet's life with her and her two marriages, the editor of the book did a mediocre job proofreading and correcting the book... I found myself looking through certain sections of the book, and finding sentence structure errors, misspellings, and double words when only one was necessary (i.e. 'was was', instead of 'was' )...

Even with the grammar errors, I found myself falling deeper into the lives of Taylor and Janet as I read through it, and I found myself finishing the book on a Friday, and whispering the words 'wow' as soon as I finished the book... The book was highly emotional, but beautiful at the same time... I highly recommend the book if you want to understand more of the Taylor Behl case... I also recommend it if you want to get a taste of how a mother reacts and deals with the murder of her only child...

It was highly emotional, but beautiful at the same time...
reviewed by webin on November 19, 2006 1:41 AM

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This is the amazing story of Taylor Behl. I can't recommend this book enough. It has touched my life and it will undoubtedly touch anyone who reads it.
reviewed by bugger on November 24, 2006 4:52 AM

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This is a beautiful gift from a loving mother to her deceased child. We will never really know what happened on the night of Taylor's death, but we know that the world is a sadder place because she is gone. Janet does a wonderful job of dispelling rumors about her daughter, exposing the inadequacies of the campus police, and praising those who came to her aide at such a horrible time in her life. If I had a daughter, I would hope that she would be as beautiful, intelligent and caring as Taylor. God Bless Taylor's family.
reviewed by glassysurf on November 28, 2006 9:03 AM

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