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comment by NikolaiFyodorov
NikolaiFyodorov  ·  874 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: My father, the hitman

Sad reading.

> I realize now that he groomed me from childhood. I was his perfect mark—and still am. I’ve found ancient yellow pads in my student papers from 50 years ago bearing the first paragraphs of my attempts to write this story. I see in them the beginnings of how I chose my profession, and sometimes I fear that I, too, am a confidence man, selling the proposition that hours of conversation with me will change a life.

Beautiful.