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August 14 - October 14, 2020
And what about those suspended laws? Will it be legal to poison, mutilate, or infect people—
Dad decided not to vote for Donner after all. He didn’t vote for anyone. He said politicians turned his stomach.
The problem with that is when you don’t vote, someone else’s vote counts more.
https://www.scarymommy.com/staying-out-not-caring-politics-is-privilege
https://wou.edu/westernhowl/staying-out-of-politics-is-a-privilege/
https://www.theodysseyonline.com/the-privilege-of-staying-out-of-politics
A victim of God may,
adaptation
a partner of God,
A victim of God may,
Or a victim of God may,
God’s victim,
Amy Dunn,
Robin Baiter
The fire plan worked the way it was supposed to.
Edwin Dunn
fire service fees
water wasted
spent, not wasted
Tracy
She was 12 when her 27-year-old uncle who had been raping her for years managed to make her pregnant.
Uncle...
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Irrational as usual, Tracy’s mother blamed Tracy for his exile, and for her own embarrassment.
no money for prenatal care or an abortion.
Tracy’s maternal instincts didn’t kick in,
Christmas Dunn
Haha
I’ve never seen anyone hit Amy or curse her or anything like that. The Dunns do care what people think of them.
She loved it. She’s got a hungry, able little mind, and she loves attention.
if someone doesn’t help Amy now, someday she’ll do something a lot worse than burning down her family’s garage.
Wardell Parrish and Rosalee Payne
They look at us as though we smell and they don’t.
Haha
Payne and Parrish. What perfect names they have.
Haha
Joanne Garfield,
Harold—Harry—Baiter,
Curtis Ta...
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Mic...
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Aura...
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P...
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Joanne’s fath...
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The Garfields and the Baiters are white, and the rest of us are black.
That can be dangerous these days.
Peter Moss
he’s always trying to be like his father, and his father is a total shit.
Haha
Karen, Natalie, and Zahra.
Richard Moss
his own religion—a combination of the Old Testament and historical West African practices.
Some middle class men prove they’re men by having a lot of wives in temporary or permanent relationships.
Some upper class men prove they’re men by having one wife and a lot of beautiful, disposable young servant girls. Nasty.
When the girls get pregnant, if their rich employers won’t protect them, the employers’ wive...
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Is that the way it’s going to be, I wonder? Is that the future: Large numbers of people stuck in either President-elect Donner’s ...
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squatters and street poor who stare at us in their horrible, empty way,
If we find corpses in one, we stay away from it for a while.
Haha
see whether or not I could do it—whether shooting a bird or a squirrel would trigger my hyperempathy
Birds are particular pests because they can fly in, yet I like them. I envy their ability to fly.
