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MuseRider

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1. I remember that scared the

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Tue Aug 1, 2023, 09:15 AM

Aug 2023

hell out of me. I was a 12 years old then. I could not imagine. I was just really beginning to put together everything going on around me. My parents did not watch the news much or ever talk about anything going on. We had tornados, nuclear war drills and those were about it. Big enough, oh yes, we also had to worry about some of the people that apparently Menninger Hospital let roam around.
Some guy in a tower shooting people? Now that was something to think about.

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