America 1982-Chapter 581 - 125: SHP

(Let me explain about the previous Chapter; I discovered that some content was cut. It mainly detailed why Ed Koch being gay was his biggest scandal, to the extent that he even needed to move away from New York. During his tenure, New York saw an HIV epidemic, and in order to prevent it from spreading further, he forcibly closed many LGBTQ-exclusive bars, clubs, and spiritual centers during his third term. This resulted in large numbers of LGBTQ individuals protesting against him, accusing him of discrimination and dictatorship. Although he would lose many votes, he at least won the approval of the general New York public. If it came out before his fourth election that he closed those places and forbade gays from being intimate, yet continued to engage in unprotected sex himself, it would mean he’d have offended both the LGBTQ community and the general public. And all the while, he publicly presented himself as a normal male who just feared marriage. In fact, it wasn’t until many years after his death that people discovered he was gay and that the other man had a family. The Mayor of New York had quietly been a male mistress to a firefighter for many years, supreme by day, subordinate by night—no Hollywood male-female romance dramas could be as exaggerated as the reality played out in America.)

"You always think of little tricks to make women more fascinated with you." Delia edged closer to Tommy, who seemed unrelated to everything around him as if he were an outsider, looking straight ahead with an appropriate smile on his face, and spoke softly while the host of the event introduced a bunch of dogs frolicking on the sports field to a group of about twenty women on camera for the TV station.

Delia had known him since he was studying at Stanford, but after all these years, she still felt that his image in front of her was vague, even now, when he was close at hand, she couldn’t really see the blond young man clearly.

Previously, Tommy had taken the initiative to call Susan to ask how many women who were hurt were willing to come forward, and he had carefully written down the number. After some time, he told Susan that he was preparing to launch a foundation along with others.

Then, he invited Susan and her girls to the Marshall Country Club for relaxation. He had already asked Odelia to contact the best psychologists in the name of the foundation to create a supplementary treatment program that could cure the panicked and anxious female victims.

Hearing Delia’s words in his ear, Tommy, looking at the dogs being guided by the trainers to cautiously approach the ladies present, said, "My mother once said that God walks the earth not to be cheered by his people, but to redeem."

After hearing Tommy’s words, Delia was silent for a moment before sighing softly, "Your mother must regret teaching you those things. She wanted to use those words to influence you to be a kind lamb, not to be a charlatan who exploits what ’Mommy said’ to agitate others."

The host of the event at Marshall Country Club currently knelt down, stroking a greyhound with one hand and holding a microphone with the other, introducing to the women, who showed a mix of affection and surprise towards the dogs, "Ladies, I proudly introduce to you these dogs in front of us, all of whom are athletes from Australian greyhound races, no, retired athletes. Please feel free to reach out and greet them without worry; each has been carefully trained by dog trainers to be gentle, intelligent, and well-behaved."

"I’ve learned from Miss Susan Curtis about the unfortunate experiences you ladies have been through, and I sympathize deeply. Moreover, I admire the courage each of you has shown in publicly talking about your painful past."

"However, rest assured, today we are not asking you ladies to recall unpleasant and tragic memories, but rather top psychological experts from universities such as Stanford University, the University of Southern California have been invited by the SheHerdPower Foundation to prepare a supplementary treatment for you ladies known as Human-Pet Mutual Redemption Therapy. Today is a treatment experience session, hoping to help you ladies step out of the shadows as soon as possible."

"Each dog you are currently petting comes from Australia. They have been rescued by the Australian Animal Protection Association, the American Animal Protection Association’s California branch, and the SheHerdPower Foundation after overcoming numerous obstacles. You might wonder why I’m using the word ’rescued.’ It’s necessary for me to explain. In fact, every dog here today is a Greyhound, a very fast breed. In Australia, they are reared for various competition, such as rabbit hunting or racing. Each one has won countless prizes and medals for their previous owners, who would treasure them, providing premium dog food, various supplements, dedicated veterinarians, and even dentists until they got injured. In Australia, if a dog is hurt and can no longer bring honor to its owner, it might not even live to see the audience leave; it might just be taken backstage after a race and have its head bashed in with a bat by its owner, ending its life."

On hearing the host’s last sentence, the women present couldn’t help exclaiming in shock as they retracted their hands from petting the dogs. They looked at the dogs beside them with trepidation, fearing that a slightly forceful touch or a too fierce facial expression might scare them.

"Some ladies might say that an injured dog can be treated. Yes, that’s true. But to Australians, spending a lot of money to heal their injuries and still not being able to make them reach their peak performance again is impractical. Why not just buy a new greyhound? After all, they are merely tools to make money; it’s more in the interest of those people to discard them when they’re worn out. A normal Greyhound’s lifespan is up to 14 years. However, the oldest among these dogs is only three, and the youngest only one year and nine months old. Due to prolonged use of hormonal drugs, they only live up to about eight years, roughly equivalent to a human dying at forty. They live six years less than their kind for a cruel reason: because they were superior to their peers."