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crim son

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4. Being a mother who thinks about things

Reply to The Straight Story (Reply #2)

Sun Jan 6, 2013, 12:22 PM

Jan 2013

it strikes me that shooting my infant would be a hell of a lot easier than, say, bludgeoning it to death with a baseball bat, or even drowning it. And after the infant was dead, it would be very difficult to bludgeon myself to death with that same bat. The gun made it all infinitely easier, no question about that.

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