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• Emergency Money From Inslee Will Fund Desperately Needed Legal Aid for Detained Immigrants

  20-06-2018 23:30 via thestranger.com
  
  “We’re in desperate need of resources."by Nathalie GrahamHe's allocating $200,000 in emergency funds.Legal advocates helping detained immigrants in Washington State will get a $200,000 boost thanks to emergency funding from Governor Jay Inslee.
  The state will allocate the emergency dollars to the Northwest Immigrant Rights Project (NWIRP), which provides legal help to immigrants detained in Washington. NWIRP is facing huge demand for its services as the Trump Administration enforces
  
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• Trump's Family Separation Policy Was Cruelty Incarnate. Why Didn't Democrats Shout About It Sooner?

  20-06-2018 23:27 via thestranger.com
  Blabbermouth Podcast Episode 154by The StrangerSubscribe to the podcast FOR FREE by clicking right here!
  Dan Savage, Rich Smith, and Eli Sanders dissect the latest lies and evasions from the Trump administration as it faces backlash over its policy of separating mothers from their children along the southern border. Also: Should Democrats have been shouting about the family separation policy sooner?After that, Katie Herzog talks about a controversial cover story in the current issue of The Atlan
  
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• With Yellowstone, Ace Screenwriter Taylor Sheridan Tries TV

  20-06-2018 23:25 via thestranger.com
  Angry Kevin Costner is fun! The rest is... not as fun.by Ned LannamannThere aren’t any good guys in the Paramount Network’s new drama Yellowstone—or, at least, there aren’t any good guys that I can see. Everyone is horrible in his or her own way, from wealthy rancher John Dutton (Kevin Costner) to city-slicker land developer Dan Jenkins (Danny Huston) to scheming Native chief Thomas Rainwater (Gil Birmingham).It’s a show about the unbreakable wills of powerful men c
  
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• Column Followup: So When Will Sam Have to Stop Sucking THROAT's Cock?

  20-06-2018 23:17 via thestranger.com
  
  by Dan Savage
  Today's SLLOTD is a little different: instead of answering a reader's question for me, a reader will be answering my question for him.
  The first letter in this week's column is from a straight boy who was worried he might be taking advantage of his gay friend. Sam had been giving THROAT ("Totally Have Reservations Over Advantage Taking") norecip blowjobs for the last few weeks and THROAT was coming down with the norecip guilts...
  My problem is I am starting to feel guilty and worry
  
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• Another decades-old Tacoma murder solved? Suspected killer of 12-year-old Michella Welch arrested

  20-06-2018 23:00
  A man suspected of killing 12-year-old Michella Welch more than three decades ago was arrested Wednesday, Tacoma police said. The suspect is believed to be in his late 60s and was taken into custody in Pierce County. He has not been identified. Prosecutors are expected to charge the man Thursday. Police declined to talk about […]
  
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• Hearts Beat Loud Is Cute, Quirky, and Boring

  20-06-2018 22:50 via thestranger.com
  Sorry, Nick Offerman :(by Ciara DolanOn paper, Hearts Beat Loud looks fantastic: It stars Nick Offerman as Frank, the owner of a struggling Brooklyn record store and the single father of Sam (Kiersey Clemons, of Dope and Transparent), who’s romancing her first girlfriend while preparing to move to the West Coast for college. It’s even got Toni Collette as Frank’s landlord/love interest and Ted Danson as his friend and permanently stoned bartender!But the crux of the weak dramed
  
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• Canada Puff Puff Passes Legal Weed

  20-06-2018 22:50 via thestranger.com
  
  Welcome to the club, Canada.by Katie Herzog Getty Images
  Canada, finally, is catching up with Washington state.On Tuesday, Canada officially became the second nation in the world to legalize cannabis at a federal level (Uruguay was the first), when the Senate approved Bill C-45, otherwise known as the Cannabis Act. And, unlike here, Canada will have both medical and recreational weed markets and adults will be able to grow up to four plants on their own. The law, however, does not go into effect
  
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• Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom Is Fuckin’ Nuts!

  20-06-2018 22:37 via thestranger.com
  Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom Review: Whoa! What the Fuck!by Erik HenriksenAn upbeat mix of weaponized nostalgia, product placement, Chris Pratt 2.0, CGI monsters, and light misogyny, 2015’s Jurassic World delivered everything modern moviegoers demand! Thus it became the fifth-highest grossing movie of all time.Which means you are legally obligated to see Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, in which the dinosaurs are so goofy that I swear to god they get THIS CLOSE to talking. All of cinema w
  
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• ICE Temporarily Shutters Portland Facility Due to Occupy Protest

  20-06-2018 22:30 via thestranger.com
  by Nathalie GrahamOPB:Following two days of raucous heckling and disruption from Portland demonstrators, a regional office for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has temporarily shuttered, the agency announced Wednesday.
  “ICE operations at this location have been temporarily halted due to security concerns,” a statement from an ICE spokesman said. “Normal operations will resume once security concerns have been addressed.”
  The announcement comes amid a growing protes
  
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• House passes bill that would improve mastectomy coverage

  20-06-2018 21:55
  The Rhode Island house approved legislation that ensures insurance covers all costs for a mastectomy
  
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• US stepping up Earth’s protection from asteroids, comets

  20-06-2018 21:38
  US is stepping up efforts to protect the planet from incoming asteroids that could wipe out entire regions or even continents
  
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• Events to Celebrate the Beginning of Summer

  20-06-2018 21:36 via thestranger.com
  A Rosé Solstice Soirée, Freeway Park in Bloom, and more events on the summer solstice and beyond.by Stranger Things To Do StaffFor a city that rains nine months out of the year, Seattle sure knows how to turn things around come June. Summer officially arrives on Thursday, June 21, and there are so many ways to celebrate it. Whether you're looking for solstice-specific events like the city-wide Make Music Day or a Rosé Solstice Soirée, or you just want to spend time in
  
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• 27 Events to Celebrate the Beginning of Summer 2018 in Seattle

  20-06-2018 21:15 via thestranger.com
  
  by Stranger Things To Do StaffSummer starts tomorrow! Shutterstock
  For a city that rains nine months out of the year, Seattle sure knows how to turn things around come June. Summer officially arrives on Thursday, June 21, and there are so many ways to celebrate it. Whether you're looking for solstice-specific events like the city-wide Make Music Day or a Rosé Solstice Soirée, or you just want to spend time in the sun at Freeway Park in Bloom or Camlann Medieval Village's Midsomer F
  
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• Protesters Aren't Leaving a Portland ICE Office Until Trump Ditches "Zero Tolerance" Rule

  20-06-2018 20:50 via thestranger.com
  
  by Kelly KenoyerSeveral tents set up near the ICE building in South PortlandKELLY KENOYER
  A group of protesters have been camped out a US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) building in south Portland since Sunday—and they're not planning on moving until the Trump administration revokes its "zero tolerance" immigration policy that's been separating thousands of immigrant children from their families.
  The idea to "Occupy ICE" followed a Father's Day rally and march outside the SW Maca
  
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• Former leader of Spokane NAACP who posed as black pleads not guilty to fraud

  20-06-2018 20:46
  A former NAACP leader in Washington state whose life unraveled after she was exposed as a white woman pretending to be black has pleaded not guilty to welfare fraud.
  
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• Ex-NAACP chief who posed as black pleads not guilty to fraud

  20-06-2018 20:46
  A former NAACP leader in Washington state whose life unraveled after she was exposed as a white woman pretending to be black has pleaded not guilty to welfare fraud.
  
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• Microsoft Responds to Employee Petition

  20-06-2018 20:37 via thestranger.com
  
  TL;DR: "See? We're the good guys!"by Katie Herzog Getty Images
  Microsoft found itself in the dog house this week after over 150 employees signed a petition calling on the company to end its contract to provide cloud-computing services to ICE, the government agency currently running baby prisons for immigrants and asylum seekers in Texas. In response to the criticism, company CEO Satya Nadella wrote a company-wide email addressing the ongoing humanitarian crisis down south and Microsoft's role in
  
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• What happens to families already separated? Relatives, advocates await specifics

  20-06-2018 20:34
  Seattle-area immigrant advocates, faith leaders and others said they were glad no more families would be separated at the border, most were wary of what happens now.
  
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• Peach Kelli Pop’s New Album Is Sunshine Punk with Pit Bulls

  20-06-2018 20:34 via thestranger.com
  
  Gentle Leader features full-throttle hooks and explosive sweetness.by Ciara DolanThe cover artwork of “sunshine punk” band Peach Kelli Pop’s new album Gentle Leader is the perfect representation of their music: It depicts a bedroom where rainbows, hearts, and butterflies coexist alongside more sinister images, like someone wearing a creepy Easter Bunny suit and disembodied reptilian claws holding a pink sword.{{ image:1, align:left, width:300 }}When we speak, frontwoman Allie H
  
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• Northwest immigrant-rights official awaiting specifics after Trump announcement

  20-06-2018 20:34
  “The administration did this without thinking, and now they’re probably not thinking, either,” says Jorge Barón, executive director of the Northwest Immigrant Rights Project.
  
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• Washington’s GOP congressional members oppose separation of migrant children, largely avoid blaming Trump

  20-06-2018 20:28
  Republican congressional representatives from Washington came out against the policy of separating migrant families detained at the U.S.-Mexico border — but avoided direct criticism of President Trump, whose administration launched the policy.
  
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• Man arrested in connection with death of woman, 18, shot near Kent trail

  20-06-2018 20:27
  The suspect fled in the victim's car, which was parked in a South Seattle driveway, before officers spiked the car's tires, police said.
  
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• Study: Plastic will pile up in wake of China recycling ban

  20-06-2018 20:24
  Scientists say China's decision to stop accepting plastic waste from other countries is causing plastic to pile up
  
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• What a Time to Be Alive: A Conversation with Facebook Artist-In-Residence, Joey Veltkamp

  20-06-2018 20:06 via thestranger.com
  
  Artist Joey Veltkamp checks-in to Facebook with The Stranger intern Sophia Stephens.by Sophia StephensArtist Joey Veltkamp in the process of hanging “Don’t Give Up,” with husband Ben Gannon attending. Facebook Artist In Residence Program, photographer Candace Fields
  Like most interesting things in this day and age, I discovered artist Joey Veltkamp while scrolling through Facebook.After a few guided clicks, I learned that Veltkamp is an openly gay artist based in Bremerton (he
  
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• We're Giving Away Tickets to the North Bend Film Fest This Summer!

  20-06-2018 19:57 via thestranger.com
  
  by Stranger Things To Do Staff North Bend Film Festival via Facebook
  This August, North Bend, the hometown of many Twin Peaks shoots, will debut a new film festival of strange, Northwest-themed movies, including some in VR. The full lineup of films for the August 23–26 event will be announced on July 7, but first, we're giving away three Vista Badges. Those will allow you to pre-select your films before the general public, admit you to six films or events (including the opening night) as w
  
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• Win Tickets: North Bend Film Fest!

  20-06-2018 19:35 via thestranger.com
  Enter Below for the Aug 23–26 Eventby Stranger Things To Do PartnerThis summer, North Bend, the hometown of many Twin Peaks shoots, will debut a new film festival of strange, Northwest-themed movies, including some in VR. The North Bend Film Fest's full lineup of films will be announced on July 7, but first, we're giving away Vista Badges for Stranger Things To Do app users. The badges will allow you to pre-select your films before the general public.Enter to win here. We're giving away th
  
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• Do you have a long, difficult commute in the Seattle region? Tell us about it

  20-06-2018 19:35
  If getting to and from work is a daily trial, we’d like to hear from you. Get in touch with us for a story on difficult commutes.
  
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• New flu vaccine worked only a little better than traditional shot for seniors

  20-06-2018 19:18
  Government study shows newer flu vaccine was only slightly more effective in seniors than traditional shots.
  
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• Inslee to boost legal-aid funding for immigrants as family separation policy spurs uproar

  20-06-2018 18:43
  Gov. Jay Inslee is authorizing $200,000 in emergency funding for the Northwest Immigrant Rights Group to give civil legal aid for people, families and unaccompanied minors.
  
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• Inslee slams Trump White House as ‘den of deceit’; Republicans quieter in criticism of border separations

  20-06-2018 18:43
  President Donald Trump's ostensible reversal on separating immigrant children from their parents did little to satisfy Gov. Jay Inslee and other state Democratic elected officials.
  
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• Federal Employees Who Want to Buck Trump's Family Separation Policy Can Now Receive Free Legal Advice

  20-06-2018 18:30 via thestranger.com
  
  Jason Rittereiser asked his firm to offer the service and they thought it was a good idea.by Rich SmithDemocratic congressional candidate Jason Rittereiser asked his firm to offer the service and they thought it was a good idea.Courtesy of Jason Rittereiser's Campaign
  Tuesday afternoon Jason Rittereiser announced that his law firm, HKM Employment Attorneys, is offering pro-bono legal advice to "federal and state employees who refuse to enforce Trump’s policy of separating children from the
  
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• New shingles vaccine is highly effective, long-lasting — and in short supply

  20-06-2018 17:16
  A national shortage of a new and more effective vaccine to protect adults over 50 from the painful rash known as shingles is prompting retailers to create waiting lists and the manufacturer to delay additional promotion. Shingrix, licensed in the fall by the Food and Drug Administration, is the preferred vaccine recommended by the Centers […]
  
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• A cool-down is coming, along with summer solstice | Wednesday Morning Brief, June 20

  20-06-2018 17:12
  Morning Brief is a newsletter from The Seattle Times delivered straight to your inbox every morning, Monday through Friday. Our editors choose the morning’s most important and entertaining items, and deliver them to you in short, easy-to-digest bites.
  
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• Slog AM: Mayor Durkan Heads to Texas to Protest Family Separation, Microsoft Employees Are Anti-ICE, The Last (Plastic) Straw for Seattle

  20-06-2018 17:01 via thestranger.com
  
  Bye-bye viaduct, Canada goes green, U.S. is up to no goodby Nathalie Graham"Hey, cut it out," says Durkan and other mayors to Trump administration's "no tolerance" policy.Nate Gowdy
  Conference of Mayors, assemble! Mayor Jenny Durkan is just one of the mayors making her way to Tornillo, Texas on Thursday to a shelter where separated children are being held. Durkan and other mayors in the U.S. Conference of Mayors such as mayors from Los Angeles and El Paso will be protesting Trump’s “
  
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• Too hot to handle: Politics of warming part of culture wars

  20-06-2018 16:45
  Three decades after early warnings about global warming, the issue has become entrenched in the nation's culture wars
  
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• Trudeau: Canada to legalize marijuana on Oct. 17

  20-06-2018 16:22
  Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says marijuana will be legal nationwide on October 17.
  
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• It’s almost summer — so get ready for cool-down in Seattle area, forecasters say

  20-06-2018 15:56
  Wednesday will be the last of a four-day hot streak of temperatures in the upper 80s. But it's almost summer, so get ready to cool off.
  
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• What’s the region’s second-fastest growing neighborhood? Hint: It’s not in Seattle.

  20-06-2018 15:00
  Seattle's South Lake Union, home to Amazon's urban campus, is the region's fastest growing neighborhood. But there's a close second. Check out our interactive map.
  
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• Breaking up immigrant families is ‘not who we are’? Oh yes it is

  20-06-2018 15:00
  Splitting immigrant families for no good purpose is actually a time-honored American practice. Plus who can be surprised that the malevolence is being ratcheted up now, after Trump promised as much during the campaign?
  
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• What It's Like Coming Out as Queer in a Traditional Chinese Family

  20-06-2018 13:00 via thestranger.com
  In the Chinese community, queerness is a shameful, taboo subject.by Jing Jing WangThe easiest way to get me to cry is to show me anything both queer and Asian. It doesn't even have to be Chinese, though it's worse when it is. One time I stayed awake until four in the morning watching Happy Together, which isn't even in Mandarin, the only Chinese dialect I speak, and ended up texting basically incoherent, emotional thoughts to my girlfriend through tears the entire time. She woke up to more than
  
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• What Happens After the Person You Married Tells You They're Transgender

  20-06-2018 13:00 via thestranger.com
  After two years of marriage, a couple embarks on an unexpected journey together.by Natalie WoodLast September, three days before my second wedding anniversary, I sat on the couch and asked my husband the hardest question I have ever had to ask anyone: "Are you transgender?"I had noticed some changes in Kyle. He had started to grow his hair out. He was doing it for charity, but then he left it that way. He'd obliged the manicurist and gotten his nails painted for the first time in the five years
  
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• To the Neighbor Who Passive-Aggressively Fucked with My Laundry

  20-06-2018 13:00 via thestranger.com
  by AnonymousTo the neighbor who passive-aggressively fucked with my laundry: Girl, I was there when your dryer stopped. I was fishing my wet clothes out of the washer, your cycle ended, and I thought I'd give you a grace period to collect your stuff. When I went back, your load was still there. It was after 11 p.m. and I needed to wrap this chore up, so I placed your laundry on top of the washer. When I went down 50 minutes later to retrieve my dry clothes, I found the door ajar and the clothes
  
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• The Roommate Who Changed My Life

  20-06-2018 13:00 via thestranger.com
  A crush, a gay-bashing, and an unexpected transformation.by Christopher FrizzelleSometimes a person walks into your life and changes everything. Sometimes you don't even know them. It's as if they're made out of air, dispensed by time, planted in the river just to bend the stream.His name was Darren. To say I didn't know him would be an understatement. In high school, in the late 1990s, in the suburbs of Southern California, I spent a lot of time on AOL. I became chat-room friends with someone w
  
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• The Queers Who Changed Our Lives: The 2018 Queer Issue

  20-06-2018 13:00 via thestranger.com
  Jinkx Monsoon on RuPaul, Dan Savage on John Wayne Gacy, Sophia Stephens on Audre Lorde, and more.Welcome to The Stranger's Queer Issue, and congratulations on surviving the first half of 2018.From wedding cakes to transgender soldiers to Chechnya, it hasn't been the best year for queers worldwide. Just for levity, we were going to make this a golden-showers issue, but then someone would have to write about Trump, so we nixed that. Then we were going to do a swimsuit issue, but that's not who we
  
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• The Picture of Dorian Gray at Book-It Is a Must-See

  20-06-2018 13:00 via thestranger.com
  
  A hilarious, biting, and cleverly staged version of an Oscar Wilde classic.by Christopher Frizzelle"There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about," says Lord Henry Wotton, and the audience erupts with laughter. Immediately, everyone remembers why we are here to see The Picture of Dorian Gray—to bask in the genius of Oscar Wilde, his brilliant one-liners, his scary subtexts, his delight at the paradoxes of beauty.A few minutes later,
  
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• The New Dynasty Room Is Sexy as Hell

  20-06-2018 13:00 via thestranger.com
  
  A pop-up craft cocktail bar in the late Four Seas Restaurant.by Leilani PolkLast fall, the International District's iconic Four Seas Restaurant and its cocktail lounge, Dynasty Room, closed to make way for the construction of a seven-story building. But the demo date was TBD, and the building would have stood empty for a while had its owners not found a temporary tenant. I-Miun Liu, owner of Oasis Tea Zone and Eastern Cafe, had been looking for a place in the ID to kick-start his next venture. "
  
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• The Lesbian Who Taught Me What My Problem Was

  20-06-2018 13:00 via thestranger.com
  I thought I hated my teacher. Then again, I also thought I was heterosexual.by Katie HerzogIt was my first semester of college at a small state university for people who didn't get into their top choice. I wasn't particularly interested in school, but I was even less interested in making a career for myself as a bagger down at the local Walmart. At least until I met the woman who would be my creative-writing professor. She made being a Walmart bagger seem like a fine option.My teacher, who I'll
  
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• The Lesbian Couple Who Broke Up My Marriage

  20-06-2018 13:00 via thestranger.com
  If you know a lesbian who needs out of her straight marriage, don't help her like this.by Trisha ReadyI don't remember the coworker's real name, so I'll call her Gail. She taught in the experimental school where I worked. This was 30 years ago.The guy who ran the school resembled Louis XIV with long, dark ringlets of hair. He wore black leather pants and preached at staff meetings about the liberating effects of S&M. He was also quite brilliant.It was an odd place to work. Checks didn't alwa
  
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• The Killers That Haunted My Adolescence

  20-06-2018 13:00 via thestranger.com
  Dan Savage on John Wayne Gacy, Jeffrey Dahmer, and a scarier killer than either of them.by Dan SavageActually, there were two serial killers.My most vivid memory from freshman year of high school is standing at the front of a drugstore reading the Chicago Sun-Times. It was the winter of 1978, and I was 14 years old. Day after day after day, pictures of boys shared the front page with a mug shot of a heavyset middle-aged man with a bad haircut. The boys looked like classmates I had crushes on. Th
  
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• The Killer That Haunted My Adolescence

  20-06-2018 13:00 via thestranger.com
  Dan Savage on John Wayne Gacy, Jeffrey Dahmer, and a scarier killer than either of them.by Dan SavageActually, there were several killers.My most vivid memory from freshman year of high school is standing at the front of a drugstore reading the Chicago Sun-Times. It was the winter of 1978, and I was 14 years old. Day after day after day, pictures of boys shared the front page with a mug shot of a heavyset middle-aged man with a bad haircut. The boys looked like classmates I had crushes on. They
  
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