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Lawrence Gilliard Jr. Is A Fine Actor And I've Always Felt Some Residual Guilt That We Killed Him So Early In The Wire. It Was Always Planned That Way; We Didn't Kill Him Because Of Anything He Did, We Don't Kill Off Actors Just To Do It.

That's What We Were Interested In: How Power And Money Ran Itself, Much More So Than 'drugs Are Bad, Drugs Are Good.' That Seems To Me A Simple Moral Equation And One You Don't Have To Spend 60 Hours Of Television Examining. And I Think The Same Thing Is True With How We Approached Pornography Or Prostitution. Prostitution's Been Around Since The Bible, And Pornography's Been Around Since About 15 Minutes After The French Guy Invented The First Camera.

Baltimore's Often Called The Most Northern Southern Town. It Has A Distinct Essence. It's Definitely Post-industrial, Definitely Rust Belt, Very Working-class. I Grew Up Outside Of Washington, And I Felt I Was Moving To A Completely Different Place When I Moved 30 Miles North Out Of College.

For A Detective Or Street Police, The Only Real Satisfaction Is The Work Itself; When A Cop Spends More And More Time Getting Aggravated With The Details, He's Finished. The Attitude Of Co-workers, The Indifference Of Superiors, The Poor Quality Of The Equipment - All Of It Pales If You Still Love The Job; All Of It Matters If You Don't.

You Are Worthy Of Love And You Deserve To Be Happy. You Have These Beautiful Qualities And Many More Because You Are Living The Gift Of A Human Incarnation. My Hope Is That You Will Embrace These Truths And Your Birthright To Live A Life Abundant In Love, Joy, And Celebration.