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People, basically out of fear, look the other way, trying to suppress things they see, and forget.

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“Devil in Disguise” also unpacks the details of the twice-married Gacy before his killing spree, and all the troubling signs were there, even if everyone around him chose to look the other way.

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“They’re paying me enough money to look the other way. Do you understand? Look the other way,” he said on his podcast.

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“Every day I see our communities struggling to make ends meet, working two and three jobs like my mother did, and like I did to support myself through college, while establishment Democrats look the other way to please their corporate donors,” she said.

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“These songs arrived, and I couldn’t look the other way. It was an instinct that was stronger than me, a now-or-never moment,” says Del Real.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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