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Tim Barrus and the New York Times
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Tim Barrus and the New York Times
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Tim Barrus and the New York Times
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I have only recently discovered that the teacher who abused me had a huge family. All of them boys. That is why I don’t use his name. His children are innocent. And he is dead. Why would I want to drag this family through the horror of it. I did not know what was happening. It was confusing. I tried for years to not think about it. This guy was solidly connected. But his boys are not at fault. Why should they suffer now. I wonder how safe they were all those years. And they would. Suffer. They would be shunned by the community they live in. I am the one who did what the teacher told him to do. It is pounded into your brain right from moment 1, act 1, adults are in charge and you are a complete afterthought. Not the main event. The main event for me was living with the every moment of the abuse over and over again. Don’t tell me survivors can block it out. I have never met anyone from that tribe. Sometimes really bad people do extremely well. It happens. These people have immunity for anything they do. If you’re lucky, you get to learn how to get around them. I smile and nod a lot. But I do not look people in the eye. My eyes are a two car garage filled with rats and cats.
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Tim Barrus: Dirt Bike Town
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I used to see this stuff from the lens of archeology. The sociology of stuff. What is your stuff and how much stuff do you have, and how much stuff do you need. There are just too many questions. Homo sapiens move around a lot. Anthropology has a different take on it. Equality does have embedded roots. But we make it very difficult to combine all the things that make it so, make it so.
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