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RKP5637

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3. I knew someone a long time ago that grew up in Iowa and fled to Washington, D.C when 18. He

Reply to exboyfil (Reply #1)

Thu Jun 7, 2018, 11:36 AM

Jun 2018

said people just have no idea how hateful, ugly and backward some places are. And that frankly your life is endangered, that none know what it's really like unless they lived it.

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I knew someone a long time ago that grew up in Iowa and fled to Washington, D.C when 18. He RKP5637 Jun 2018 #3

I think it is has gotten better - at least in my suburban community exboyfil Jun 2018 #4

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