twelve.

i remember when i was twelve, the boys in my class were rapping to eminem. our parents were afraid - they said he was a bad influence ... but the boys grew up just fine.

now, sixteen years later, i read news of twelve year-old boys raped, not rapped ... all the time. and i find it really disturbing how i always found the news a little ... unsurprising. i'm worried, i really do.
 
imagine sixteen years from now ... could we still blame eminem then?