Kill the Motherfucker!

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I was 12 when my father forced me to go watch the execution of a man who had killed his brother. The moment marked the end of my childhood, and perhaps the end of my father’s humanity. I’ll never forget witnessing  the man’s suffering before my eyes, the crowd’s fervor, and the cries of my father, shouting “kill the motherfucker!”  A short while later my father became addicted to opium. He died two years later. In reality, he committed suicide. And I...I think ahead to my final days, and that cry, “kill the motherfucker!”

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