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59. Is there a case to be made that Hinkley wanted to impress Jodie Foster?

Sun Jan 13, 2013, 05:49 AM

Jan 2013

Does that make more sense than out of the millions of families that the Bush family knew, Hinkley came from a family that was friends with the Bush family? That's pretty out there, too. But I will agree that it's correlation, not necessarily causation.

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