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Grow up? Get herself straightened out? Her mind reeled from the verbal battering. No matter what she did, her father would tell her she was wrong. Worthless. Undeserving.

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Ted Dekker
Age: 61
Born: 1962
Born: October 24
Author
Novelist
Republic of Indonesia
Theodore R. Dekker
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Straightened
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Undeserving
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Verbal
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Worthless
Grow
Grows
Wrong
Reeled
Father
Battering

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