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Whose Untimely Death Would You Undo?

A big question
Source: Graham Roumieu

Alison Sweeney, actor and producer

Abraham Lincoln’s assassination changed the trajectory of the United States. We’ll never know what could have been if he’d been able to finish his second term.


Victor Levin, writer and director, Destination Wedding and 5 to 7

died tragically at 27, having made some 40 feature films. There was

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