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Blame
Posted by Cecilia Leger
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10:28 AM
He blamed his parents, of course, long before he was old enough to understand that this was the fashionable thing to do. If he hadn't, Society itself would have ignored any rationalizations he might have been clever enough to proffer. Experts with wizened expressions and somber voices would have been brought in to intone phrases like "attachment disorder," "parental deprivation," and "permissive parenting" that no one would question for fear of being thought ignorant. But Gerald knew those phrases meant nothing.
The real reason for his life of crime was simply that they’d named him Gerald.
Gerald!
What else was he supposed to do? Become an accountant?
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