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arely staircase

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10. wow he would be thirty five

Reply to Cooley Hurd (Original post)

Sun Oct 6, 2013, 07:48 PM

Oct 2013

he might have been a great man. or a bad man. or an ordinary man. but he never got to be any of those things. I think that if we can find a silver lining in this horrible thing it is that his death really focused attention on hate crimes against the LGBT community.

Rest in peace.

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