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Chapters (12)
  1. Cover
  2. Acclaim forTHE LARAMIE PROJECT
  3. Other Books by This Author
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright
  6. Dedication
  7. INTRODUCTIONby Moisés Kaufman
  8. AUTHOR’S NOTE
  9. ACT I
  10. ACT II
  11. ACT III
  12. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

SHADOW: I was the last person that Matt talked to before he left the Fireside.… I was just bullshittin’ around with my shit, and he stopped me, I stopped him actually, and he’s like, “Hey, Shadow, da da da,” and I was like, “What, man, you gettin’ ready to leave?” he’s like, “Yeah, man, and this an’ that.” But then I noticed them two guys and they stood outside, you could see, you could see it, they were standing there, you know, and he was looking over to them, and they were lookin’ back at him. And I stood and talked to Matt for like a good ten minutes and you seen the guys with him, you seen ’em getting like, you seen ’em like worried, like, you know, anxious to leave and shit.… So when they took off, I seen it, when they took off, it was in a black truck, it was a small truck, and the three of them sat in the front seat and Matt sat in the middle.

And I didn’t think nothin’ of it, you know. I didn’t figure them guys was gonna be like that.

MOMENT: McKINNEY AND HENDERSON

NARRATOR: A friend of Aaron McKinney:

ANONYMOUS: Oh, I’ve known Aaron a long time. Aaron was a good kid, I liked Aaron a lot, that’s why I was shocked when I heard this, I’m like … I know he was, he was living out far … at his trailer house is what he told me, with his girl … they just started dating last summer … they musta gotten pregnant as soon as they started dating, you know, ’cause they had a kid. He was only twenty-one years old, but he was running around with a kid.… You see, that’s the kinda person Aaron was, just like he always dressed in like big clothes, you know like, in like Tommy “Hile-figer,” Polo, Gucci …

At the time I knew him, he was just, he was just a young kid trying to, you know, he just wanted to fit in, you know, acting tough, acting cool, but, you know, you could get in his face about it and he would back down, like he was some kinda scared kid.

NARRATOR: Sherry Aanenson: