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Your mother all but accused me of something that is, among my kind, the highest crime a man can commit. There is no trial, only punishment, because it is considered better to let an innocent man die than let a guilty one live. (Page 79.)

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Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
Age: 40
Born: 1984
Born: April 16
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