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After my terrible sentence, when the prison dress was on me, and the prison house closed, I sat amidst the ruins of my wonderful life, crushed by anguish, bewildered with terror, dazed by pain.  But I would not hate you.  No matter what your conduct was to me, I always felt that at heart you loved me far better than anyone else.  But you, like myself, have had a terrible tragedy in your life, though one of an entirely opposite character to mine.  In you hate was always stronger than love.  Your hatred of your father was of such stature that it entirely outstripped, overthrew and overshadowed your love of me.  You did not realize there was no room for both passions in the same soul.

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from Oscar Wilde's De Profundis (2010), released June 13, 2011

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Thomas Oboe Lee Cambridge, Massachusetts

Thomas Oboe Lee was born in China in 1945. He lived in São Paulo, Brazil, for six years before coming to the United States in 1966. After graduating from the University of Pittsburgh, he studied composition at the New England Conservatory and Harvard University. He has been a member of the music faculty at Boston College since 1990. ... more

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