To kids I bullied in school. I have apologised and I will continue to. To repay those things karmically, I will watch my kids’ hearts like a hawk for signs of hardening or any distortions of empathy that they might develop.
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My two middle children, Mason and Jude. They will know why.
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My dad’s parents in Ghana, for not spending more time with them.
My parents, because I rather slipped from their standards on more than one occasion. And when they got older, I wish I’d been kinder and more tolerant with them.
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To my brother. When he was a small boy, I made him urinate on an electric fence to see if liquid could really transmit electricity.
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It would have to be the justice system in Colorado, which is not geared toward taking care of victims. The guys who killed my sister in 1975 always come up for parole every year.
Thirty seconds ago. I cry a lot. I find great solace in it.
Putin. Because he is so comfortably who he is.
My sister’s death – I would love to meet her kids. [Karen Grammer was 18 when she was abducted, raped and murdered.]
I would borrow from Peter Sellers: Glenn Miller’s In The Mood.
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