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

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Before that,she says, students from her high school never thought they could get into a grande ecole.

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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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