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On a warm night in early November 1961, 25-year-old Robert Garrow breathed down the streets of Albany,

New York.

He had no particular destination in mind.

He was just happy to be out of the house.

Not that he was trying to escape his home life, he liked spending time with his wife,

Edith, and their two children.

Things were just fine.

Still, he'd been consumed by restless tense energy all day.

He knew something was simmering inside him, but he wasn't exactly sure what it meant.

And then he saw them.

Two teenagers, lounging on the steps of a nearby office building.

The boy was tall, broad-shouldered, and wore a letterman jacket.

The girl was petite and pretty.

She looked up at the boy like he was her entire world.

A quarterback and a cheerleader, Garrow decided his lip curling with contempt.

The kind of people who made his life miserable as a boy.

He kept walking, trying to put them out of his mind.

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