The Innocent

the abused always take the path of s elf-destruction

Whatever you choose, you will always wonder about the path not taken.

Women were different. They used more subtle forms of cruelty or, as in most c ases, directed the rage inward-

That was how abused men showed rage-- by striking out, with physical brutality.

beyond the u sual "sex was one thing, making love another."

Prisons were filled with this sort of rationale-- it wasn't so much that you did s omething awful as that the awful was simply the norm.

NOTHING WORSE than crappy porn.

Again there was something to that-- to running into adults you only knew as k ids in elementary school, how you can still recognize them by seeing the small c hild there.

Here was something that they never tell you: Holding a gun feels great.

Cliche but t rue: The good ones were always taken.