Brainwashed

“Brainwashed, brainwashed”

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Born in the Big Apple 29 years ago, to Afghan parents, our assailant served his time in the central Florida Orlando environs, putting hs time in the Moslem praying  over the years.

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Identifying with the Moston maraqthon bombing brothersvis a vi a 911 2:30 am Sunday phone call from the Pulse gaqy club, he didn’t seem to identify vwith bsketnbsl, baswebsll, swimming, tennis in school, but was lkeft to his own Secruity role playing out afterwards.          

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Where was his consciousness and soul into energetic swimming, basketball, track and field, baseball, soccer? To that adolescent dream of growth and development. To elvolve and transcend the “brainwashing”.  An elder role model seemed to bemissing in the 29 year brain washing, since our assailant came out of the womb.

June 14, 1916. Universal Studio, North Hollywood.

The Fuller Brush Man

The Fuller Brush Man out of his Beverly Hills shining black limo, arrives at Harry Warner’s kid brother Jack’s tennis court and backgammon package…..embracing his newly strung racquet, our Fuller Brush man delivers his door to door smile to the backgammon hangers on.

Roddy MacDowell, George Hamilton and Peter Lawford.

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The “Chief” surreptiously examines a shining new can off balls. “Solly,” he cries to his talent coordinator in the waiting, to get on . “Sollly, you don’t have to open a new can. There’s enough scrub on these,” throwing the old ones out on the doubles court.

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“There’s enough nickel and dime bandits here, who could really appreciate sweating it out with the old timers,” claimed the Fuller Brush Man

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Jumping up and down, liked he was back in New Haven, Connecticut, beyond the posh Madison Towers, the College Book store, the Yale Art Gallery, and the street that Rudy Valle made famous……the street that shares the same name as the Bard’s in Stratford on the Avon.  

Memorial Day 2016 The City that never sleeps.