You are a parent, walking along a relatively empty sidewalk, your 7 year-old child holding your hand.
Fifty feet behind you is Walter, a 44 year old ex-convict with a criminal record that includes theft, assault, petty larceny and check fraud. He has never married, but he has a child who he has not seen in over ten years. Fifty feet in front of you is Patty, a divorced woman with no children, but with a history of miscarriages who is very friendly with children and is often posting materials on her Facebook page about her neighbor’s kids who frequently call her “Aunt Patty.”
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