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September 11 was terrible but, if one goes back over the history of the IRA, what happened to the Americans wasn't that terrible.
September 11 was terrible but, if one goes back over the history of the IRA, what happened to the Americans wasn't that terrible.
Approximate author period: c. 1966 AD · modern
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- Doris Lessing
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- Approximate author period: c. 1966 AD · modern
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