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On Christmas Eve...
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On Christmas Eve, Dada went downtown to this bar that he used to hang out in.
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By the time he got home...
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By the time he got home, it was way past midnight, and, in the dark, after drinking all night, Dada forgot about the Santa on the porch...
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...mistook it for a burglar
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...mistook it for a burglar or something because I woke up to hear shouting out on the lawn...gunshots...breaking glass.
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I ran into Mom and Dad's room
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I ran into Mom and Dad's room and I looked...and there was my Mother, on the floor, in the middle of all of this shattered glass and blood.
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She must have been
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She must have been at the window...and I just stood there... it was like a dream.
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But then I heard the front door
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But then I heard the front door open, and footsteps running up the stairs.
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I though that whoever had been
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I thought that whoever had been out on the lawn must be coming to get me now, and there was no place to hide.
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So I lay down
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So I lay down beside my mother and played dead.
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And when Dad got to the door
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And when Dad got to the door of the bedroom he saw me and my mother and all that blood, and... he stumbled backwards out of the room
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and I heard him crying
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and I heard him crying and saying "no, no, no," and I recognized his voice. I realized it was Dad. But then there was another gunshot. And then he wasn't crying anymore.
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