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	Name:	papa -
	Subject:	Sure
	Date:	3/4/2005 5:29:22 PM

Well, I can't honestly say that. I'd say I never had any SERIOUS thoughts of it, but I was perfectly capable of losing my temper now and again. I did throw a target dart at my brother's head once -- it had no point, and all he got was a bad bonk. But that's the way it goes -- no sense, a bad impulse, a better aim than you thought, and the accidental opportunity to do real harm, and...that's what it can take -- stupid, young, and the wrong moment. I did do some shoplifting on rare occasions when I was younger than 16, and got caught. I've often wondered how my life would have been different if I'd been caught by someone who didn't know my folks. I thought that was the worst experience in the world, but no -- it almost surely would have been a lot worse for everybody concerned if I'd been caught by some hard-a** with a throw-away-the-key mentality. Or if I hadn't had parents who could have been trusted to give a care. Or if any one of a hundred things had been just a little bit different. There but for the grace of God...