““I see them standing at the formal gates of their college. I see my father … I see my mother… they are about to graduate. They are about to get married. They are kids. They are dumb. All they know is they are innocent. They would never hurt anybody. I want to go up to them and say “stop don’t do it! She’s the wrong woman, he’s the wrong man. You are going to do things you cannot imagine you would ever do. You are going to do bad things to children. You are going to suffer in ways you never heard of. You are going to want to die.””
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