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Speaker 1: all that I found out about an alternate universe, a

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Speaker 1: world of violence and hate. I couldn't eat, I couldn't sleep.

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Speaker 1: My mother had to stop the clocks because I couldn't

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Speaker 1: longer an option. My one goal was to somehow get

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Speaker 1: just read you one of the first passages from Ernie book,

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Speaker 1: You know, in all the years I prosecuted violent felonies

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Speaker 1: And all the time I've been covering cases at court, TV,

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Speaker 1: That is the reason I wrote Don't Be a Victim

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Speaker 1: fighting back against America's crime wave. At this time in

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Speaker 1: our country and in our world, were so much of

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Speaker 1: swirling all around us. I don't want you, or me,

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Speaker 1: don't be a victim. I take every case I ever investigated, personally, prosecuted,

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Speaker 1: or covered, and from them I get tips ideas for

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Speaker 1: morph To, how do I protect my child? Part one?

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Speaker 1: And what about you save while exercising? Do I have

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Speaker 1: to save Molly Tippets and Karinavatronto? Safe out shopping, elevator assaults?

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Speaker 1: Safe in your own home? How many burglaries, rapes and

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Speaker 1: Driving dangers, wearing your car with or without your children,

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Speaker 1: in danger. This book covers it all. This is not

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Speaker 1: for profit for me, my money, all of it is

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Speaker 1: going straight to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.

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Speaker 1: Please won't you help me and help yourself? Read this

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Speaker 1: and give it to a friend. Please. All the victims

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Speaker 1: you to learn from what happened in their world. Here

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Speaker 1: other crime fighters and sleuths. Give me your questions, give

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Speaker 1: you in real time. Go to nancygracebook dot com. It

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Speaker 1: took me over two years to research and write this

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Speaker 1: and it is all for you, for you and your family.

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Speaker 1: Thanks friend,