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Show Davis County Clipper Friday, December 13, page A 7 996 1 We all have weaknesses, failings and imperfections My friend. Ill call him Larry, has been in the news recently. And it wasnt good news, if you know1 what I mean. one who was being portrayed in the news stones. And 1 was constantly being cornered by current colleagues who wanted the inside story on The Man Everybody is Talking About Today. So what was he like really? 1 shrugged my shoulders every time 1 heard the question. It wasn't that it made me angry. 1 just didnt know what to say beyond what I would have said two weeks earlier: Hes a good guy "Yeah, right, the questioner would inevitably chuckle But there must have been something weird about him. 1 mean, look at Those of us who know him were stunned and saddened. Those who didnt were well, curious. For two or three days after The News broke, I heard from former friends and work . . . believe that Larry would be capable of doing such a thing He is bright Witty. Interesting to talk to. Fun to be with. Ive worked from him. They are good, hard, effective workers just like he is. They are pleasant, likable folks just like he is. They have families whom they love and care about just like he does. And they have weaknesses, failings and imperfections just like he time. There were no hidden clues to a secret life, no tell-tal- e signs of duplicity. Just Larry, the bone, for the most part our jails are filled with good people who made a series of bad choices leading up to an unfortunate appearance on the nightly news. At least, thats what a mutual friend of Larry's and mine decided on the phone the other day keep looking back and wondering why I couldn't see that Larry had a problem, she said. But I never suspected a thing I feel like such an idiot. "Why?" I asked I don't know, she said "1 guess I like to think that Im a pretty good judge of people, and I'll be able to tell if there's somedanbody who is... you know gerous. Do you really think that Larry aren't really all that different with him, traveled with him, talked with him for hours at a my friend. Well, there is onp thing that has always struck me as a little weird, I eventually said Ever since I started working here, it was weird how much you reminded me of him. " They would look at me and laugh, assuming that I was pulling their leg even though I wasn't. Not that everyone at my current place of business actually reminds what he did! What he is accused of doing is bad, all right no question about it. But I never had any reason to associates who were trying to reconcile the Larry we knew with the me of Larry But the fact is, they does. Don't get me wrong. I'm not trying to equate human peccadilloes with the horrible crime of which Larry has been accused But it is risky to view the world in absolute terms, with good guys always dressed in white and bad guys always in black. While I don't deny the existence of people who are evil clear through to A VALUE PRICES it. sta fi i.-- , ' i:. t HELP UTAH'S V--? ON TREATS FOR YOUR HOLIDAY GIFT GIVING : SAVE i, . ROfflELESS! 10 WHEN . t ,1 u 1 1 i I . And that scares me But do you want to know what scares me even more? I know Larry pretty well, and we're alike m a lot ot ways. So when see his picture on TV and in the newspaper, part of me says. That could be me ' Who knows what I'm capable ot eventually doing it I start making bad choices Who knows what any of us is capable ot doing Who knows, indeed I hat s watch these sad and why as events untold. pray tor soriy Larry I pray tor the person whom they say he victimized I piay tor the ir families And I pray lor us 1 1 FIVEtiPOINTS , W I flflIHG YOU . 1 0112 7 .' i. lj !'' 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