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Hugin

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4. I was going to mention this...

Reply to samnsara (Reply #3)

Sat Jun 2, 2018, 08:33 AM

Jun 2018

Duck & cover kind of left it's mark on me.

At one time I actually considered whether it wouldn't be better to paint a big red X on my ass and go lay down at a known target rather than suffer a lingering death from radiation sickness.

I was less than 10 years old at that point.

People say I'm a cynic now... I wonder what a Psychiatrist would make of it.

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