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defacto7

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5. When I was 19
Fri May 9, 2014, 12:09 AM
May 2014

I was living in a house rented by my sister. The owner of the home, a 70 yo woman got drunk one day, entered the house with a gun, raging about hating all men and was going to kill me dead. I met her in the stairwell of the home and just talked softly to her for 30 minutes or so. She went back and forth between killing me, or all men, or herself, but after a while we sat down together in that stairwell, she put down the gun and just cried. We went downstairs finally, my sister got the gun and hid it, but we all just sat and talked for a very long time and she was fine. She never asked for the gun back and she never bothered anyone afterward. We became friends.

She died 2 years later of normal causes and never hurt anyone.

What's wrong with cowardly people who can't just help? What's wrong with confronting danger in your life sometimes to stop the rage? The more cops are scared of people, the more people will be scared of the cops... and needless killings will just go on and on, and on...

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