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    I conducted a 3rd interview of Corporal Rick Aguiar on February 23th, 2016 at 1608 hours. The interview took place in the Pomona Police Internal Affairs Office and Corporal Aguiar was a subject and no longer a witness. This interview was scheduled due to clarify some issues that were not covered in the prior two interviews. The interview was digitally recorded and a copy of the interview will be kept in the Internal Affairs office for future reference. The following is a summary of the recorded

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    Letter To Dog Food

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    Hello! This is Shadow, your pet dog. Please don’t freak out while reading this letter, even though it isn’t every day that you find your dog can write with perfect grammar. I’ve been waiting for five years to reveal this very important point. The dog food I’m given is the most revolting thing I’ve ever tasted. Whenever I’m tortured by watching humans eat their feasts with chicken, pasta and such, there’s nothing I can do besides eat my own inferior meal. You Homo sapiens always jump to conclusions

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    the Crossfire, by Levi Keidel, the author uses conflict to show civil wars does not lead to anything but turmoil and death. In the book, the youth was attacking the government because they were treating them wrong, but when they find out that their own people were telling the government on them, they begin to attack everyone and

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    “I want that doll,” I said when I was five. My mom came back with the response of “Why?” and I had a clear answer to that. “Because everyone else has one and I want to fit in,” said a child who is oblivious to the influence of the outside world. This feeling of having to have a material thing, just to fit into a group, is even present in the global society. Materialism is such a prominent issue in the world today and in the world of The Semplica-Girl Diaries by George Saunders. The Semplica-Girl

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    My Mission Trip

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    The experience that changed my life was a mission trip to Trinidad. We shared the gospel of Christ with the people of the island. We were able to get to know the children through backyard Bible studies and played games with them. It is an experience that remains dear to my heart. The trip that changed my life all started on October 22, 2016. It was the day I decided to sign up for the Trinidad mission trip at my church. The church held weekly meetings so we could learn more about what we would be

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    get my woman back. “You’ve got to be kidding me,” Vik hisses as he kneels beside me looking at the house where Alessandra’s being held. I can’t believe she’s been in my backyard this entire time. Fucking literally in my backyard. Menendez bought the property one house over from mine. Christ! “Sick bastard or genius, I’m not sure.” Hogan says pulling out his gun and chambering a round. He’s got that right.

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    the night? If you're in North America, most likely it is the Northern Mockingbird, (Mimus polyglottos). This bird, whose Latin name means "many-tongued mimic," may sing the songs of up to two hundred other birds but it also may be the bully of your backyard, chasing all the other birds away. The Northern Mockingbird is a long-tailed and somewhat short-winged bird, will a dark strong but short beak. It is light gray with black wings that have two distinctive white wing bars that appear to flash when

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    Records show that the practice of grafting is an ancient one, dating back well before the time of Christ It was once believed that any plant could be grafted on any other. This probably arose from observations made in tropical areas where seeds sometimes lodged in the cleft of a tree where seeds germinated and grew in the organic matter that had accumulated there. However, today, we know that only very closely related plants are capable of being grafted. Many forms of grafting are practiced, and

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    corroborate, for years vehicles have periodically parked in the back yard. The kicker was an incident that occurred in 2014 while three of the four owners were gathered to build a front fence on the property. The situation in 2014 was particularly troublesome, as a person had parked his van on the backyard property, had left his dog in the van on a very hot day with the windows barely open, causing

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    David has signed up for a one-week backpacking adventure in the Colorado Rockies with Outward Bound. His excitement was growing, he felt as if he could finally become one with nature. That is, until he looked into the mirror. It was almost as if he were aging backwards, he did not resemble a man. His boyish features seemed everlasting, how is he supposed to gain respect during this adventure from his fellow backpackers if he looks as if he belongs in an Abercrombie and Fitch catalogue? Everybody

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