"Losing my parents was the most crushing thing that ever happened to me. I lost my dad when I was 26, and it changed my life entirely.“


-Harlan Coben

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Losing my parents was the most crushing thing that ever happened to me. I lost my dad when I was 26, and it changed my life entirely.

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