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Today felt like a Red-Letter Day for Science until I saw the newspaper headlines.
I knew it was going to happen soon - but still, I'm shocked and angry that they let her go. That monster. I lived about 5 or 6 blocks from Leslie Mahaffy's house. My corner store was her corner store. I know her mom. My godfather raised his family a 5 minute walk from the house where it all happened - where they butchered those children.
I've seen Debbie's oil paintings..... landscapes viewed from Burlington Bay. Hamilton Harbour aflame and the steel mills presided over by devils. Made all the more surreal and terrible when juxtaposed with my grandmother's sultry, rubenesque nudes and pensive young men playing guitar. Jesus.
I don't know if any of you guys remember that it all happened within a month of that crash on Snake Rd. The one that ushered in the Graduated Licensing system in Ontario. It all happened in Aldershot. Aldershot! A quiet middle-class neighbourhood struck mad. Every teenager convinced he or she was next. Every girl watching over her shoulder for demons driving Cameros.
I guess it's been fourteen years. We were all pretty young. I wish I'd forgotten more. I wish none of it had ever happened. Sorry for sharing this - I'm just so heartsick right now. I can't imagine what today must be like for those families.
I knew it was going to happen soon - but still, I'm shocked and angry that they let her go. That monster. I lived about 5 or 6 blocks from Leslie Mahaffy's house. My corner store was her corner store. I know her mom. My godfather raised his family a 5 minute walk from the house where it all happened - where they butchered those children.
I've seen Debbie's oil paintings..... landscapes viewed from Burlington Bay. Hamilton Harbour aflame and the steel mills presided over by devils. Made all the more surreal and terrible when juxtaposed with my grandmother's sultry, rubenesque nudes and pensive young men playing guitar. Jesus.
I don't know if any of you guys remember that it all happened within a month of that crash on Snake Rd. The one that ushered in the Graduated Licensing system in Ontario. It all happened in Aldershot. Aldershot! A quiet middle-class neighbourhood struck mad. Every teenager convinced he or she was next. Every girl watching over her shoulder for demons driving Cameros.
I guess it's been fourteen years. We were all pretty young. I wish I'd forgotten more. I wish none of it had ever happened. Sorry for sharing this - I'm just so heartsick right now. I can't imagine what today must be like for those families.