But then time and more time went by, and now my original crime was compounded by the crime of not telling her about it for so many years and things were too complicated and I couldn't tell her the truth.

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Rep. DAVIS: ...instead of making it too complicated to administer and sending it into endless years of litigation.

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For many years, the complicated novel was thought to be "unfilmable" and Lee admitted he thought so too at first.

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