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““WHEN MARK WAS SHOT I was shattered. Shifted. Never the same again. Like shards of my own heart shivving me on the inside, just like your mama told you. You and Shawn were little and I couldn't just come home and be a daddy and a husband when I couldn't be a brother no more. ””

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