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August 14 - October 14, 2020
Sometimes I get up and go out at dawn just so I can watch them without anyone scaring them or shooting them.
just because I can shoot a bird or a squirrel doesn’t mean I could shoot a person—a thief like the ones who robbed Mrs. Sims. I don’t know whether I could do that. And if I did it, I don’t know what would happen to me. Would I die?
a nine millimeter automatic pistol
that discourages mistakes.
Haha
Armed people do get killed—most often in crossfires or by snipers—but unarmed people get killed a lot more often.
a silenced nine millimeter sub...
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!! Whew
Cory has an old Smith & Wesson .38 revolver
they spend the necessary time on practice and money on ammunition.
Haha
they can’t protect you. Things are getting worse.
I believe they’ll have a better chance of growing up if you can protect them.”
“I have a wife and five children,” he said. “I will pray for them all. I’ll also see to it that they know how to defend themselves.
“Now that’s what I have to do. You all do what you have to do.”
Haha
I worry about the way Keith wants to get his hands on the guns. Dad doesn’t seem to worry, but I do.
Joanne Garfield
Aura Moss
Llama automatic.
Michael Talcott
my father
Peter Moss
Jay Garfield
The Moss girls were both bullied and sheltered.
Aura
What about Peter Moss? Different standards for men and for women.
I hope the rest of us will survive.
Jay Garfield,
Aura
Jay Garfield
Harold Baiter
a family of corpses:
“If there were a corpse around here, we would have smelled it,”
Harry
“Not if it were fresh,” I...
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Good point. And good grammar, using the subjunctive appropriately.
J...
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Peter Moss
Talcott brothers
They’ll go after some lone street person tonight.” “Shut up, for godsake.”
“Freeze, aim, and fire. That will save you. Nothing else will.
She was too wrapped up in her own misery and fear to be of much use.
I felt the impact of the bullet as a hard, solid blow—something beyond pain.
Then I felt the dog die.
It went out like a match in a sudden vani...
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Harry Balter,
Curtis Talcott,
J...
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Haha. I hope he’s impressed not mocking.
Belief Initiates and guides action— Or it does nothing.
That’s all there has been for six years.
Cory, forever worried about infection, wouldn’t let them.
kids all over the neighborhood covered themselves with mud and earthworms that day, and nothing terrible happened to them.
