Geoffrey Gray Quotes

One of the things, universally, that psychologists found with hijackers in the early '70s was that they all struggled with women.

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• One of the things, universally, that psychologists found with hijackers in the early '70s was that they all struggled with women.

  

  Geoffrey Gray
  • Struggled
  • Psychologists
  • Universally