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Mariana

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7. He probably thought God would protect him.

Reply to underpants (Reply #3)

Wed Nov 28, 2018, 05:00 PM

Nov 2018

The fact that he survived the first couple of encounters may have made him believe that. We can speculate all day long about what the hell he was thinking when he set out the third time. My best guess is it was something like this: "If God didn't want me to do this, he would have let them kill me before."

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