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Eventually, however, the denial turned into emptiness and my childhood ended.

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America is fascinated by crime.

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He could have killed me for the blunder— which really wasn’t my fault— but I was lucky , and he gave me another chance. The two officers who questioned him were also incredibly lucky for not having had any idea who it was they’d been questioning.

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