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the future is open. I'm Amanda Knox, and you're listening to Hard Knox.

I was living in London and working as management consultants and lived in a big house and had a nice little red sports car and a lovely husband who was tall and good looking and successful.

And yes, on paper everything looked exactly as it's supposed to for an Oxford law graduate in their early thircees.

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