"Another concern was pregnancy loss." But Cary never thought her age could increase her child's risk for autism.

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"I thought I'd never utter these words but I agree with Gordon. You cannot put off this decision."

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Nancy Dlamini, a 22-year-old student from Swaziland, thought Jackson was an icon who would never die but she is philosophical about his passing.

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"I never thought I'd be one of those parents that got that phone call, but I was.

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we are human beings,'". Khalaf says that before working on this book, she never thought much about the death penalty, but she was deeply touched by reading the stories of men who often grew up in broken homes and who,as one inmate says, "became lost souls as children."

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