:58:00
WhiIe I was reading that statement,
I thought about my own four daughters.
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She doesn't have her Kid anymore.
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'''Go home...
:58:13
''' ...give your kids a hug...
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'''...and don't Iet a day go by
without teIIing them that you Iove them.'''
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And then we started getting people
sending us all these E-mails and letters.
:58:30
''Do you cry Iike a baby on TV
for aII your patients, or just the faggots?''
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Jesus.
:58:39
After being thrown into this...
:58:41
...I guess I didn't understand the magnitude
with which some peopIe hate.
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And of aII the Ietters we got,
there were two or three Iike that.
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Most were:
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''Thanks for your caring and compassion.''
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And Matthew....
:59:03
Matthew got caring and compassion...
:59:06
...from the moment he got here.
:59:16
The charges against Russell Henderson
and Aaron McKinney...
:59:20
...were upgraded to first-degree murder
after Matthew Shepard died on Monday.
:59:25
If convicted,
the two men could face the death penalty.
:59:30
I'II teII you what.
:59:31
If they put those two boys to death...
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...it wouId defeat everything
that Matt wouId be thinking about them.
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Because he wouId not want
those two to die.
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He'd wanna Ieave them with hope.
H-O-P-E.
:59:43
Just Iike the whoIe worId hoped...
:59:46
...that Matt wouId survive, right?
:59:48
This whoIe thing, you see what I'm saying,
this whoIe thing ropes around hope.
:59:49
This whoIe thing, you see what I'm saying,
this whoIe thing ropes around hope.
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H-O-P-E.