The Perfect Son
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Read between May 25 - May 29, 2025
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I don’t think he was sorry at all. Not even a little bit. The only thing I think he was sorry about was that we found her.”
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And he’s very good at getting what he wants. I won’t let him have what he wants this time.
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Liam can take care of himself. I’m not at all worried about that. What I’m worried about is Liam happening to somebody else.
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It’s my last thought as I drift off to sleep. I have no idea that my entire world is about to fall apart.
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The hardest thing about Liam is that when he says “I love you,” I can’t tell whether that’s a lie too.
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“He said he couldn’t wait to get married, so he could stuff his wife deep in a hole and never let her out.”
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Where has he been for the last forty-two years?” Mom looks down at her wrinkled hands in her lap. “He’s been in prison. For first-degree murder.”
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I’d just like to see what would happen to her, Mommy. If I put her in a hole and didn’t feed her, what would happen? And if she were my wife, I could do what I wanted and no one would even look for her.
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Now both terms are used but ‘sociopath’ generally refers to a milder form of the disorder. Psychopaths are much rarer.”
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sociopaths don’t have normal human emotions like empathy. They have no concern for the feelings of others. They also have a very high threshold for disgust, which has been measured by a lack of reaction in these patients to photos of mutilated faces. But sociopaths don’t care about faking emotions. Psychopaths, on the other hand, are excellent actors. They’re intelligent, charming, and fantastic at manipulating emotions. They can make you believe they care, when in fact, they feel nothing.”
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you’ve got an individual who feels no empathy, no remorse, no fear, and is prone to violence. It’s not surprising so many serial killers are diagnosed as psychopaths.”
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Sociopath. He doesn’t feel empathy like you do. He doesn’t feel love. He’s just faking it.