Thursday, June 7th, 2007
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December 27th, 2008 at 11:40 pm
I was born there and grew up there. I would climb the hill in front of my home and set up there on heart rock, and I could see for miles in all directions. when I go home now all I see is a lady who has been raped and left to die. I don’t go there these days. my mother wantes to go home but home is gone,where do I take her, someone help. She is 76 and wants to die at home.