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A Death in Belmont QUOTES

A Death in Belmont QUOTES

1 " They had not yet started out across a continent of grief that a lifetime of walking could not cover. "

― Sebastian Junger , A Death in Belmont

2 " The story about Bessie Goldberg that I heard from my parents was that a nice old lady had been killed down the street and an innocent black man went to prison for the crime. Meanwhile--unknown to anyone--a violent psychopath named Al was working alone at our house all day and probably committed the murder. In our family this story eventually acquired the tidy symbolism of a folk tale. Roy Smith was a stand-in for everything that was decent but utterly defenseless. Albert DeSalvo, of course, was a stand-in for pure random evil. "

― Sebastian Junger , A Death in Belmont