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newfie11

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2. What a cruel senseless crime

Reply to Cooley Hurd (Original post)

Sun Oct 6, 2013, 07:20 AM

Oct 2013

I remember this. I wonder if this horrific crime has helped other gays to be accepted in WY.
I know of a foreign college student in Casper that is gay. My first though was omg not WY but I have been told there have been no threats to him.
I hope it continues that way.

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