For Thursday's Victims
Elaine Jane, Born to poor dropouts, yet still had a brain. Might not swing hammer, still moved from Alabama, Almost killed by a school shooter manna’ Daddy’s gonna kill ‘em if he ain’t in the slamma’…
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