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Elisa Segrave’s diary: A prison visit to a friend

Plus: Asperger’s, empathy and my son; and the American way of death

20 June 2015

9:00 AM

20 June 2015

9:00 AM

Off to prison to visit a writer friend, first jailed led some years ago for trying to find a hit man to kill his mother’s toy boy. My friend had no objection to his mother having boyfriends per se, but what irked him was that she’d left the toy boy her house.

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Elisa Segrave is the author of The Girl from Station X: My Mother’s Unknown Life.

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