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normally the work day would

end at

6 PM

but today he got out

at 3

to visit his mother

in the hospital

.

Soon as he

stepped out of the

police station he forgot all

about the

maniac who nailed his

daughter’s little hands to the

kitchen table and

made her watch him

deliver no less than 106 stabbing

wounds into her mother’s

belly

.

People went insane on a daily

basis

but very few went that far

And what’s even more

insane

is that the little girl not only

forgave but

loved and never stopped loving

the monster who did that to her

a daughter’s love for

her father sure is

something to be studied in

criminology

but there’ll be time enough

for that

.

The rest of today

would have to be dedicated

to perhaps saying one final goodbye

to a mother

.

She looked so incredibly tiny on

that hospital bed, hooked up

to all the life support shit

From a distance

she looked almost like a child

like her son imagined her

looking as a child

Utterly innocent

Indeed, innocence is something you

come to truly value

when you work in

criminology like he did

and as he dropped to

one knee

by the side of his mother’s bed

he remembered

that story he knew about her from

when she was a child

the story of how

she and another friend

of hers

have been taken shopping by a

friendly neighbor

and he bought them lots of

cute clothes, many of them swimwear,

and took them to his house

afterwords and

took hundreds of Polaroid pictures

of them

and then drove them back to their

homes

.

A few years later

when the police accused the

same man of some dirty deeds

with other girls, they were quite shocked

to find that

all the girls he dealt with not only would not

speak ill of him, but would straight up

defend his actions

‘He was good to me,’ they’d all

say

Goods, how innocent

they were

ridiculously innocent

one could say

“Mother,” he whispered

by her side. “You look like a little

girl again. Can I tell you a story?”

She was not dead yet

but neither could

she reply

she just listened

innocently to her

son’s teary voice