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A True Story about Guns

February 12, 2013
By FlannelSkin PLATINUM, Portland, Oregon
FlannelSkin PLATINUM, Portland, Oregon
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Favorite Quote:
“If faces are different when lit from above or below – what is a face? What is anything?" - William Golding, "Lord of the Flies"


In my house, we have a plate with a lighthouse painted on it.
My mother gave it to my father for Christmas.
My father likes lighthouses because he is from New England.
The plate was painted by a man my mother knows.
That man is also from New England.
Yesterday there was a shooting in New England.
Twenty children and six teachers were killed by a gun.
Today, according to my mother, the man who painted the lighthouse plate went out on the Willamette River on a boat.
He took his seven guns with him.
He dumped his seven guns into the river so they couldn't hurt anyone.
This is the most beautiful instance of littering that I've ever heard of.



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