[Ads-l] _ask_ > "tell"

Wilson Gray hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Fri Nov 17 18:09:47 UTC 2017


FBI agent relating the story of an interrogation:

"... So, I re-cuffed him with his hands in front, looked him right in the
eye, and then I _told_ him: "*Is* she okay?" And he answered, "No, because
I killed her."

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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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