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Neighbors Spill the Beans on Christine O'Donnell

Nothing crazy, but she did host frequent slumber parties with boyfriend

By Kevin Spak, Newser Staff

Posted Oct 13, 2010 2:55 PM CDT

(Newser) – Is the real Christine O’Donnell really just like you? Rebecca Dana of the Daily Beast decided to ask the candidate's old neighbors to find out, and most spoke relatively well of her. “To me, she never said anything nuts,” said one teacher at a nearby Catholic school. Another recalls her as a “sweet girl” who once baked him and his roommates burnt cookies. “We probably flirted with her a little bit, and she flirted a little bit back.”

One couple, however, chuckle at the notion that she’s opposed to premarital sex, saying she had frequent overnight visits from her boyfriend. “And the walls upstairs are very thin,” adds her next door neighbor, who hated O’Donnell. She complains, among other things, that O’Donnell often spilled cat litter on their shared porch, and says she never once saw O’Donnell, a professed Catholic, at church until her first run for office in 2008. Dana also reports O'Donnell had a penchant for sitting on her porch in her jammies and drinking wine and smoking cigars.

In this March 19, 2010 photo, Delaware Republican Senate candidate Christine O'Donnell's home is seen in Greenville, Del. (AP Photo/The News Journal, Jennifer Corbett)

In this Sept. 16, 2010 file photo, Delaware Republican Senate candidate Christine O'Donnell gestures during a candidate forum,, in Wilmington, Del. (AP Photo/Rob Carr, File)

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