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Prairie Gates

(5,706 posts)

5. 17 years old

Reply to Calista241 (Original post)

Sun Dec 10, 2023, 12:19 AM

Dec 2023

Redding: There's not a day goes by I don't feel regret. Not because I'm in here, or because you think I should. I look back on the way I was then, a young, stupid kid who committed that terrible crime.

I wanna talk to him. I wanna try to talk some sense to him -- tell him the way things are. But I can't. That kid's long gone and this old man is all that's left. I gotta live with that.

Rehabilitated?

It's just a bullshit word.

So you go on and stamp your form, sonny, and stop wasting my time.

Because to tell you the truth, I don't give a shit.

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