Luby's Cafeteria, Killeen, Tx

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he hated women it was simple an explanation it wasevidence he was a loner you know the sort of guy we allknow the sort of guy that's why we don't walk the nightstreets nobody stopped to say oh maybe I'll be gunneddown if I eat therethanks anyhow I'll take a bagged lunch to work thanksagain cafeterias mid-day give me the willies fluke you saynuts crazy wacko women are basically safe he just lost ithe wanted to make a statement (on the bodies of women)I am covered in graffiti footprints of fear and blood andwhat it's like to live huntedit's true we've gone places into boardrooms into factoriesinto nurseries with your children into engineering depart-ments into cafeterias but one woman with red hair wasraising a blueberry muffin to her lips and another wassipping coffee with extra sugar she didn't like milk

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