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Well the one major issue with the murders that was brought up at the time was that people said that the only reason they happened is because Happy's chooses to deliver in areas that no other pizzerias will. At the time I read quite a few articles that drew that conclusion but it’s been some time and
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Well there have obviously been a lot of changes to the little article I half heartedly started. I honestly didn’t expect people to immediacy want to destroy it, nor take time to save it. And I would like to thank the people who did make efforts to improve it as opposed to just throwing it away. All
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and I find it hard to believe that there would be any resistance in keeping it outside of someone’s personal vendetta. I’m not sure of the motivation behind so zealously opposing it at first but I think the article has now appropriately responded to the original criticism.
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