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Why does shame and self-loathing become cruelty to the innocent ?

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Anne Rice
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: October 4
Author
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
New Orleans
Louisiana
Anne O'Brien
A. N. Roquelaure
Anne Rampling
Howard Allen O'Brien
Howard Allen Frances O'Brien
Cruelty
Innocent
Shame
Become
Doe
Self
Loathing

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