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Why?


WHY Why? Why did you have to leave my mother? Why? Why did you have to kill that brother? Why? Why did you have to sell that crack? Why? Why you make babies but laid on yo back? Why? Why you had to shoot up that school? Why? Why you had to rob that dude? Why? Why you have to rape those girls? Why? Why you have to kill for pearls? Why? Why you to rob that bank? Why? Why kill those innocent people in that bank? Why? Why didn’t you think before you pulled that trigger? Why? Why you didn’t think about the vigor? Why? Why is the Question I think about when I turn on the news.
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