Who is Jodi Centonze? For better or worse, she's in the middle of the struggle over Terri Schiavo's fate. Here's a sympathetic portrait from the St. Petersburg Times.
Jodi Centonze, 40, is Michael Schiavo's live-in girlfriend, mother of their two children, 1 and 21/2 years old.Centonze occupies a peculiar role in the national debate over Terri Schiavo - in the middle of it, but never a public part of it.
"She wants to stay out of it," said her brother, John Centonze. "She says this is not about her, it's about Terri."
Yet she has been anathematized, her name invoked as a key reason why Schiavo, 41, should not control his wife's fate. Outside Terri's hospice, protesters hold signs that say, "Michael don't plan the wedding yet, we still have hope!" and "Arrest Mike for bigamy."
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