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Kate Middleton offered words of comfort to the Southport stabbing victims families, as she visited the grieving town today. While Prince William had promised the community that he would visit as ...

That we will miss you is an understatement of the highest order. May God bless and comfort his wife, Tonya, their daughter ...

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