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Jack Valentino

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15. I actually rambled onto it on HBO or such, without any prior warning, from the begininng,
Wed Nov 12, 2025, 01:39 AM
Wednesday

late at night.... and could not stop watching....
spent most of the film screaming for the main characters to
'get the fuck out of LA' and stop wasting time---
but I fancied myself something of a 'survivalist' at the time,
and was extremely frustrated about all the time they were wasting---

In that period, near the end of Reagan's second term,
there were 'standing orders' in my house
about jumping into the car and driving north 'as fast as you can'---

(my house was on the northern edge of Michigan's capital city---
but, probably would have only prolonged the inevitable,
in such an instance....)

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