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A killer always assumes that things will be easy after you finish those first few hits. It's a simple enough assumption, I mean most people in the civilian world think it's a tough thing. A killer, who's good at his trade (I mean really passionate)...shouldn't he be getting call backs? Shouldn’t he be getting opportunities instead of laying by the phone, halfway between hungover and drunk? These are the things a depressed man like myself asks the world. I got into this business at a young age, the army had me for 4 years in a non comba...
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(WARNING Themes of substance abuse, mental health, and death) A few feet from my chair he’s laying down, my sweet baby boy tucked in with the sheet to his chin. He was always a deep sleeper even as a baby. now the noise outside the the room is bustling but he doesn’t sway from his dreams. Jacob always seemed to have the best ones, he was a born dreamer. I gave birth in the early hours of the 15th, it was a difficult time, but he’d come out healthy. We told ourselves that there’d never be a Valentines Day gift to top this, and it was the tr...
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