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Kim speaks next. “It was pretty much the same for me. My dad never needed guns when we was growing up. An’ then he got worried about protection, security, you know, and terrorism and intruders. I have no idea why; maybe that’s what everyone was saying.” She, too, begins to cry. “So my ex and I… we took him out and taught him to shoot. I had no idea that he would ever… he called me in the middle of the night, told me it was all my fault. Did it right then. And why? It’s the same thing, when someone shoots himself in the head; all you can do is cremate them. You’re searching for… memories.”
Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America's Heartland
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