It was his individual fighting style that made Lee so special, said film writer David Parkinson.

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Jerry Sandusky's letter expanded on the rambling, 15-minute courtroom soliloquy that touched on everything from the writer Henry David Thoreau to "special inmate friends" to wet kisses from dogs.

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