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I live now in a country where this doesn't happen.
Taking the dog out after dark, going to the grocery, walking by a school.
It took a while, but I don’t think of escape routes every time I go anywhere.
Turns out there are gun laws here.
Old man with a little dog, on a walker in the dark. I don’t think about it anymore.
I hate that it’s so weird to feel that.