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What’s the most heartbreaking book you’ve ever read?

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Danielle

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Brittany

Salt to The Sea, A Man Called Ove, The Nightingale

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Briana

i cried so hard in the Nightingale

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Brittany

@Briana me too! These three books are the ONLY books that have ever made me emotional enough to shed some tears!

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Kimberly

The Book of Negroes

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Bridget

Where the Red Fern Grows and Charlotte’s Web. I love both so much! ?

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Gloria

They Cage the Animals at Night

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Suzanna

Suzanne’s Diary for Nicholas by James Patterson. I threw the book multiple times and bawled for days aftereard. Didn’t help I was pregnant when I read it.

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Randi

It Ends With Us ???

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Brittany

@Randi this one was very powerful !

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Jasmine

@Randi
Absolutely one of my favorites!

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Sonia

Salt to the sea by rupta sepetys

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Stacy

Ps I love you

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Marissa

The empress

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Sheryl

The Book Thief, Me Before You, and Richelle Mead’s Eugenie Swan books.

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Wi

Me before you

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Briana

The Nightingale, Where the Red fern grows, my sisters keeper, a little life, atonement, flowers for algernon

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Rachel

@Briana the Nightingale hurt my soul. ?

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Missy

Definitely Me Before You. Ripped my heart out.

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Sydney

The last song

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Amanda

Ways to Live Forever – Sally Nicholls

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Emilia

A walk to remember I was reading and walking at the same time so when I started crying I nearly walked into a lamppost

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Megan

Still Alice because it hit on a personal level.

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Amande

Me before you, Jojo Moyes.

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Malika

The book thief

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Amanda

Yes! Had me bawling like a baby!

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Steinunn

Before I die by Jenny Downham

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Barbie

The Time Traveler’s Wife

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Brittany

Garden of Angels by Lurlene McDaniel!

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Shvarya

It Ends with Us, colleen hoover ?

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Cierra

Faking Normal

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Manuela

The Road – Cormac Mccarthy. It hurt to read.

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Terri

A boy called it. Totally heartbreaking true story

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Ashley

@Terri actually there was a whole lawsuit about him making it up

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Toya

@Terri I had to read that book for a psych class. I hated it because his story was so horrifying.

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Terri

@Ashley oh my God you’re joking! That’s terrible if he did

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Ashley

@Terri he said it himself on oprah

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Ashley

I loved that book and my heart was broken when I found out

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Christina

@Ashley I did a little googling and couldn’t find anything that said it was made up. I did find one article that said it “might be fake” but nothing else. Are you sure you aren’t thinking of A Million Little Pieces by James Fray? He went on oprah saying that some aspects of his book were embellished

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Terri

@Toya yeah it was shocking & definitely stays with you

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Terri

@Christina I had a quick look & couldn’t find anything either. A few reviews saying that they think it’s faked. Hopefully it’s not the case

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Alina

If it’s Dave Pelzer’s book (I read it as “A child called it”, I could not cry, I was too stunned and sickened, left me feeling horrible for weeks), then : https://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/28/magazine/dysfunction-for-dollars.html

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Julie

A Monster Calls is the one that’s springing to mind.

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Jasmine

@Julie
Yes!!

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Amanda

The Lovely Bones…

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Falicia

Bright Side – Kim Holden

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Rebecca

I second that still recovering

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Chris

@Chris – A life story

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Lauren

the song of achilles

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Catalina

I second this.

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Sylvia

Handle with care, Jodi Piccolt

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Tina

Heartless

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Masa

Forbidden by tabitha suzuma.

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Antaisha

A Stolen Life by Jaycee Dugard
I know she gets a happy ending. But reading what that girl went through was rough!

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Beverley

‘the boy who gave his heart away’ true story broke my heart ?

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Cathy

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Tanya

Kite Runner

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Steffy

Fault within our stars

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Elizabeth

A Boy Called It by Dave Pelzer.

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Katie

A Thousand Boy Kisses by Tillie Cole

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Kristen

A Summer to Die. I read it in Middle School and I still remember it to this day.

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Amber

F

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Patti

If I Stay and My Sweet Audrina.

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Christopher

Tears of a Tiger

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Alyssa

Night by Elie wiesel

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Erika

Falling Into Place by Amy Zhang and If he had been with me

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Monique

Cleo, by Helen Brown. Read it on the train on the way to uni, was bawling my eyes out the whole way

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Carli

Loved that book

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Monique

Have you read the next one, Jonah? I loved that one too. And I just got her new one, Bono. Her cats have so much personality

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Myranda

A Thousand Splendid Suns

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Elisa

Sarah’s Key by Tatiana de Rosnay

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Becky

@Elisa so good!

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Ramos

All the bright places by Jennifer Niven

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Joan

The Book Thief

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Helena

F

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Jake

Tuesdays with Morrie

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Karima

A thousand splendid suns

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Casey

A Walk to Remember

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Erika

YES

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Progga

A thousand Splendid suns

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Ava

My Sister’s Keeper made me cry.

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Brandi

A Child Called It ?

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Jen

@Brandi ughhh yes! I read it for the first time in middle school. Broke my heart

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Kaylea

Me Before You

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Θεανώ

All the bright places

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Sara

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

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Teanna

The Book Thief ?

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DavidQuestion author

Wow my TBR just got huge after all your recommendations ? thank you, and keep them coming!

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Mandy

Atonement

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Donna

Bridge of Tarabithia

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Vynex

It ends with us by coleen hover and the last song by nicholas sparks

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Kristin

The Hearts We Sold

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Angelee

All The Bright Places

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Marissa

The Half Bad Trilogy

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Maritoni

War Storm… it’s so boring it breaks my heart.

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Caroline

Me Before You or The Fault in Our Stars

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Dianne

The Law Of Moses and The Song of David ?

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Lindsay

The Light We Lost, Every Note Played, and The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo. All AMAZING reads and BEAUTIFULLY heartbreaking! ❤️

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Becky

I was thinking about reading the seven husbands of Evelyn hugo. But for reason I keep putting it off

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Lindsay

@Becky – I highly recommend it! I spent an hour on Booktube watching several people’s 2018 wrap-ups and they ALL raved about this book so I decided to read it….I have absolutely no regrets!!

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Kylie

Heartless by Marissa Meyer

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Rianna

Flowers in the attic V C Andrews

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Rianna

Water for Elephants

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Cheyenne

All The Bright Places by Jennifer Niven

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Malina

Bright side ?

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Harlo

If There’s no Tomorrow ❤️

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Kalee

Night Road by Kristin Hannah

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Amanda

The Book Thief

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Kristy

Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne. My son was a baby and I was pregnant with my daughter at the time so I was a complete mess. My son is currently reading it for school and I’m still not ready to revisit it.

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Adriana

We were liars by E. Lockhart, More happy than not by Adam Silvera, Every day by David Levithan, Extraordinary means by Robin Schneider, How to love by Katie Cotugno

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Sammy-Jo

The tattooist of auschwitz by heather Morris and the diary of Anne Frank

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Breanna

Gone With the Wind

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Lana

One good dog by Susan Wilson.

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Mar

The Last Song by Nicholas Sparks

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Lani

It ends with us by colleen hoover

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Ligia

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Jasmine

A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness

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Talia

The lovely bones

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Carrie

It’s a tie between God-Shaped Hole
by Tiffanie DeBartolo
And The Storyteller
by Antonia Michaelis

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Magda

Oscar and the lady in pink, the boy in the striped pajamas and the mark of the lion trilogy.

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Tanis

Darkwing by Kenneth Oppel. I cried so many times. ? reading everyone elses I sound weird lol

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Anna

It Ends With Us

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Dorothy

It ends with us and Hopeless

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Becky

@Dorothy I am reading it ends with us now! On chapter 2!

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Becky

And just finished hopeless. It was sooo good!

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Dorothy

@Becky Colleen Hoover is the best

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Savannah

Peony in Love by Lisa See

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Kimberly

it is a kids book but man I’ve read it a million times and I cry like a baby every time

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Shayne

A Child called it. Also, Me before you.

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Agathe

A monster Calls. Still not over it after years.

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FS

The Idea of You by Robinne Lee

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Cassie

A Child Called It
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I Stop Somewhere by TE Carter.

Ranking up there is Where the Red Fern Grows

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Kirsten

Boy in the striped pyjamas

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Isabella

Empire of Storms by Sarah J. Maas

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Amanda

A thousand boy kisses by tillie Cole

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Tara

All Dave pelzer books (boy called it)

Daddy’s little secret

Watership down

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Lauren

Goodbye dearest Holly – about the Soham murders

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Laura

Book thief

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Mehak

Noughts and Crosses

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Teodoru

The House of Night by P.C.Cast, I cried non-stop. But it was sweet also.

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Dora

Kingdom of Ash by Sarah J. Maas. All the feels!

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Becky

Book theif

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Jasmine

A WP novel titled “A Place in Time” I cried so much with Book 1

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Zayna

Orphan monster spy , when breath becomes air, book thief, a man called ove

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Libby

Salt to the sea

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Jewel

A monster Calls

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Marisa

Where the Red Fern Grows. The Lovely Bones

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Taylor-Kita

The Amber Spyglass – Lyra and Will’s final moments.

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Sadia

Empire of storms….

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Ines

Book Thief ?

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Harlo

@Ines I love that one!

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Ines

@Harlo it has been three years since I read this book and honestly I still get emotional when I think about the beauty of this story. ?❤️

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Harlo

@Ines I understand.

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Gabrielle

The Kite Runner

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Harley

Speak & Willow

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Chase

Banana Fish, Call me By your name,

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Aukje

I don’t know about the most heartbreaking book, but I was pretty devastated at the end of Heartless ?

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Alex

Princess Cinderalla (It’s an autobiography)

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