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" I was a schoolteacher; I taught seventh and eighth grade, and I tried to write fiction on the side. "

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" When criminals go free, the hope is that history will come in and provide some level of justice. It won't correct the sins, but it will at least record them. The sinners would be known, and the victims' stories would be known. "

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" The outlaw, in the American imagination, is a subject of romance - a 'good' bad man, he is typically a master of escape, a crack shot, a ladies' man. "

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