"My mother raised three children on her own and my dad was a doctor working 16 hours a day.“

-Christopher Meloni

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Christopher Meloni quote about dad: "My mother raised three children on her own and my dad was a doctor working 16 hours a day."

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"I have mostly been terrified of listening to scary stories around a campfire. We camp a lot as a family, and at night my dad would try and tell us scary stories. This made eating s'mores difficult. The story would start with something like... 'and the old man who lived in these woods...' I would then run back into the camper terrified."

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