‘I know he cheated on me because of his childhood…’

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"I know he cheated on me because of his childhood abuse, but I shot him because of mine." (Woman on witness stand explains her actions to courtroom.)

“—but I shot him because of mine.”

(by Robert Mankoff in The New Yorker, 16 Aug 1999)

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