3. Kill Unnecessary Prepositional Phrases

Spot the prepositional phrases in these excerpts. Which are necessary? Which can you kill with tightening?

In addition to the postings at FailedMessiah.com and other Jewish blogs, Engelmayer also used a home account to impersonate the grassroots Jewish organization Uri L'Tzedek on Essential Estrogen, the personal blog maintained by this reporter. The comment, made in response to an article detailing the indictment of two Agriprocessors' supervisors, was the full text of the Uri L'Tzedek press release that lifted the group's boycott on Rubashkin labels. The comment was posted nearly 10 hours after another thread had already announced the boycott being lifted.

I’ve had more than one person say to me, “People get divorced all the time. The child will adjust to having two homes and only seeing her father on the weekends.”  Sad, but true - they will adjust. But is it necessary? Perhaps if my ex weren’t such an involved parent, it would be more of a consideration. But to take my daughter away from her father would be like taking away her most favorite toy in the world - and for what reason? So I can have my own bachelorette pad, that fits within the budget of my alimony? Come to think of it, of the people who made that statement, or ones similar - none of them have children. Until a person has a child their own, I don’t think they can fully realize how much they would be willing to sacrifice for the sake of their child or how much it can change their decision making process. I know I didn’t. I was completely clueless about parenthood prior to having my daughter. So many things I took for granted before becoming a Mom…