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I like to write about things about which I have no answers, questions that trouble me. These things trouble me.
Paul Haggis
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Paul Haggis
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: March 10
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Paul Edward Haggis
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This is our fault. My fault as much as the next man's, because even if I was against the war, I didn't do enough to stop it.
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I miss my mother very, very much.
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