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And there are moments that I would like to know what might have happened if it hadn't happened, and why it happened the way it did, and what it might have taken to prevent it from happening.
And there are moments that I would like to know what might have happened if it hadn't happened, and why it happened the way it did, and what it might have taken to prevent it from happening.
Approximate author period: c. 2009 AD · contemporary
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- Colum McCann
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- Approximate author period: c. 2009 AD · contemporary
Approximate author-period evidence for Colum McCann: documented activity in 2009. Wikidata Q966228, inspected 2026-10-08. Not a quotation composition date or independent verification of attribution. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q966228 (accessed 2026-10-08).
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