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We Don’t Need No Stinking Heroes
No matter which of the many addresses my sister and I lived at as we grew up, we always lived under my mother’s punishing roof. We were subjected to our alcoholic mom’s cruelty and humiliation when she managed to notice us; the rest of the time, we were merely neglected. (It wasn’t all bad, but […]
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Win an Assault Rifle at the Cochise County Fair!
Last September, I was walking with my friend through a tent at the Cochise County Fair, just outside Douglas, Arizona, about five miles from the US-Mexico border. We were celebrating my birthday a couple of days early. Some group was raffling off an AR-15. As we walked by their table, they gave us a bit […]
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