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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- January 8, 1989
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in love. The problem is that Roger is a womanizer and a man on the
way up-everything Anna likes, he despises as lower class. When Anna
becomes pregnant, he refuses to marry her and so Anna does him in
with a breadknife. Here, she tells her side of the story.
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