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"If you're a father of a child who dies, it's an experience that never leaves you. It scars you forev..." — Frank Deford
If you're a father of a child who dies, it's an experience that never leaves you. It scars you forever and ever and ever. And so when I do any kind of story with somebody who's in the same position as my daughter was, there's no question that something comes out of me and embraces that story in a way that only a father who lost a child could.
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