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took this to heart.
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He had been born in gnawing poverty near Saint-Etienne
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in '59, his father a Dutch mill hand
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who abandoned his wife and four children.
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In primary school and at Mass
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he was embarrassed by having clothes so shabby that they
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resembled those worn by beggars.
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He worked here and there,
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but periods of unemployment became longer.
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He turned toward anarchism, also to grave robbing,
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counterfeiting, and finally murder,
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strangling a strange old hermit