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Am I committing murder with this writing?
Written by Jeff Sparrow on 8-12-2009
Here's Francesca Rendle-Short's extraordinary essay about her relationship with her fundamentalist father, a deceptively simply and very moving piece of prose. It should be read alongside Francesca's earlier essay about her mother, morals campaigner Angel Rendle-Short.
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