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• We got back from the circus. My old friend Smitty let us sit in the first row. The knife swallower started sitting on dad's lap. This made me very nervous. When Smitty came on stage he started to wink at us and his best lion started growling. I enjoyed the high-wire act and remembered when I was nineteen running away to Poland with the Holiday on Ice Show. Why did I believe when they told me they raped babies/kids were screaming/it was a joke. A lot of my references are jokes / I grew up gullible and naive. Did you