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It started with a backpack at the 1996 Centennial Olympic Games,

a backpack that contain a bomb.

While the authorities focused on the wrong suspect, a serial bomber planned his next

attacks, two abortion clinics, and a lesbian bar.

But this isn't his story, it's a human story,

one that I've become entangled with.

I saw, as soon as I turned the corner,

basically someone bleeding out.

The victims of these brutal attacks

were left to pick up the pieces,

forced to explore the gray areas between right and wrong,

life and death. Their once ordinary lives and

mine changed forever. It kind of gave me a feeling of pending doom. And all the

while our country found itself facing down a long and ugly reckoning with a growing threat.

Far right, homegrown religious terrorism.

Listen to Flashpoint, starting July 25th on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your

podcasts.

Okay, so, as a kid, after some side-jons, my parents move us to a town called Mount Pleasant,

the home of Central Michigan University, and there they release me to my own recognizance,

to the mean streets of Mount Pleasant, where I meet a pack of similarly situated youngsters,

and every day we run Pharaoh. situated youngsters

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