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There's a vast difference between growing up poor in the rural Illinois and growing up poor in Cabrini Greens.
You can grow your own food, fish in the creek, hang your laundry out on a line, burn your trash, walk around in a yard, nearest neighbor is 1/2 mile down the road, he has a shotgun instead of a 9MM ......
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Approach the mirrored reflection saying his name three times : "Butcher .... Butcher .... Butcher ....."
and wait to see if this Bogeyman urban legend manifests in the background, looming over shoulder
While your neighbors were busy killing off everyone in the neighborhood
with your own butcher knife in hand concealed behind your back
you stood for
ever before the window saying
nothing
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