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Scootaloo

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1. I wonder how these people live with themselves.

Reply to joeybee12 (Original post)

Tue Sep 16, 2014, 05:06 PM

Sep 2014

I wonder about myself in the same position. A conscripted soldier put on guard detail at a place like that. After it's over, how can I just go and hide and pretend nothing happened, and not just end myself in a week or two? To go on for the better part of a century, how the fuck isthat possible?

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