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Kelly had a severe drinking problem, struggled to hold on to a job, and tended to spend his money as soon as he. The prize winner of defiance, ohio audiobook abridged. The prize winner of defiance, ohio was based on the bestselling memoir by terry ryan, who was the sixth of evelyn ryans ten kids. The prize winner of defiance, ohio ebook by terry ryan. Evelyn ryan julianne moore was a woman of intelligence, talent, and pluck living in the small town of defiance, oh, in the 1950s. The authors mother, evelyn ryan, married to an irresponsible and sometimes.
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