It's a pain Jolie knows all too well from losing her mother to the disease.

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She knows what it's like to be a mother, and a wife, and to care for aging parents, and pay for the groceries, and the heat, and the mortgage, and to make the car payment.

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Grigor Harutyunyan, a 16-year-old who lives in a building where Mr. Merah's mother was once registered, said he knows Mr. Merah as Momo.

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He knows that he must first acknowledge that his mother was not just a victim of his father (the narrative he told himself when growing up) but a perpetrator of child abuse, too.

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