8 Oct
2019
8 Oct
'19
1:21 a.m.
On Mon, 2019-10-07 at 18:02 -0700, Owen DeLong wrote:
It certainly would have been a higher level of pain in the short run, but it also would have led to a much shorter period of pain.
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