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There was one thing my murderer didn't understand he didn't understand how much a father could love his child.

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Alice Sebold
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: September 6
Novelist
Writer
Madison
Wisconsin
Much
Love
Murderer
Child
Understand
Father
Didn
Children
Thing

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