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![“[Liam] felt the life, the person he had been, rush past him and out the door as his eyes took in the overturned, splintered remains of their living room. It was a feeling he’d felt only once before, when his father died. But what made it worse…made it permanent, was lying in the middle of the…” quote by Cerece Rennie Murphy](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/3db/cerece-rennie-murphy-44588_father-died_liam-felt-the-life-the-person-he-had-bee_381236.jpg)
