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The world didn’t like to look at the dark underside very often. But that didn’t change the ugliness it only ensured that those who perpetuated the ugliness were left alone to kill and maim and rape.

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Ted Dekker
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: October 24
Author
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Republic of Indonesia
Theodore R. Dekker
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