Thank you Maigan. This is helpful. I look forward to meeting you as well and to helping you and Jim put this behind you and move on with your lives. Haytham Faraj Sent from my iPad Haytham,
Thank you for taking time to walk me through everything this afternoon. I feel much more at ease with the process (as at ease as one can be in this situation). I've been thinking some more about my interactions with Ariana and Jim surrounding this, and I wanted to send some more thoughts your way. I'm not sure if this will be helpful, but I don't want to leave anything to chance, so here you go.
Regarding Ariana:
- The Friday after the last parade Ariana asked Jim, me and a group of others to go to a bar across the street from the barracks. This was the first time she had ever asked us to do anything with her. The group consisted of me, Jim, his friend Jeremy, Tim and Karin Agoulnik, and a friend of there's. The Agoulnik's friend was a married man, but he left the bar with Ariana to go next door to another bar. Tim and Karin were stunned that their friend had left, and Jim followed them out of the bar. Jeremy and I followed Jim out and found him talking to Ariana on the sidewalk. Jeremy and I told Jim that we wanted to go home. He told us to start walking, and he'd catch up. When I told him that we'd wait, Ariana told him that whatever he had to say to her he could say in front of me. I was too annoyed to listen to whatever Jim said to her. We walked to the car and on the way home Jim kept getting phone calls and texts from Ariana. He finally answered the phone and told her that she needed to forget that phone number and to never call him again. When I asked why she was calling him, he said that she was upset and didn't want Jim to be mad at her. When I asked why he cared, he said that she had just gotten in trouble for slapping an enlisted Marine and didn't need to get into any more trouble.
- Throughout the parade season, Ariana would sometimes go home to change after the parade. She would come to the Center House immediately following the parade but at some point in the evening she would go home, change into a short cocktail dress, and then come back to the Center House. I always thought this was strange (partly because she would also take her hair down, but never wash it leaving it greasy and stringy). I don't know if she did this after every parade, but I recall seeing her in civilian clothes on a couple different nights. I find it strange that someone who claims to have had such a traumatic work environment would voluntarily return to a place that made her so uncomfortable week after week.
- I spent every Friday night with the same group of spouses/girlfriends. We attended every parade together with the exception of 2. One of the Fridays we did not attend the parade, the guys met us over at the Agoulniks after the parade. Jim and I didn't stay long because I had a terrible headache. After we left, Ariana came over (not because we left - we just missed her). The other girls commented to me later that they thought it was a little strange that she was there because she didn't really talk. Apparently she just stood in the kitchen and watched people. All this to say, that I'm not the only one who found Ariana strange.
Regarding Jim:
I spoke incorrectly in my recollection of the Saturday in question. Jim did not have sex with Ariana that morning, but she did give Jeremy a blow job. Part of the reason that she wanted them to come back that afternoon was because they didn't have sex that morning, and she wanted to have sex one last time (because Jim had told her that that would be the last time).
Thanks again, Haytham. I look forward to meeting you in person next week.
Best, Maigen
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