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Blanche Taylor Moore, The Oldest Woman on Death Row (Part 2)
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The Worst Day: Projectile Vomiting & Home Renovations
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After a brief trip to New Jersey for his son's new baby — the 'honeymoon' — Dwight is struck mid-lunch with violent nausea that ends with him projectile vomiting across the kitchen and collapsing face-down on the floor. [1] — Ash Kelley "Dwight projectile vomited so hard across the kitchen that vomit hit the far wall, then collapsed face-down on the floor. Blanche never stop…" 37:33 Throughout the entire ordeal, Blanche does not stop talking about home renovations: curtains, blinds, paint. Even as she helps him off the floor and walks him to the bedroom, she is narrating her remodeling plans. Ash calls her 'evil' for being so removed; Alaina says the capacity to watch prolonged suffering and feel nothing is inhuman in a way she cannot comprehend. The hosts observe that this cruelty is particularly brutal because it unfolds slowly, over months, in intimate domestic settings.
Dwight Moore's mysterious illness always seemed to improve when he was away from Blanche — at his sister's house, during hospital stays without her. His family read it as a failing relationship. He chalked it up to her personality. Neither had yet considered she was the source.
Dwight projectile vomited so hard across the kitchen that vomit hit the far wall, then collapsed face-down on the floor. Blanche never stopped talking about hanging curtains. She just kept planning home renovations while her husband lay there in agony — a glimpse into a mind with zero human empathy.
