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Kim Goldman's crusade: Make OJ Simpson pay and never forget

LOS ANGELES - Kim Goldman wrote to O.J. Simpson a few years ago, asking to visit him in the Nevada prison where he was being held for robbery and kidnapping.

She wanted to see the man she says killed her brother, Ron Goldman, and Simpson's wife 25 years ago this week outside Nicole Brown Simpson's Brentwood townhouse. It would become known as "the crime of the century."

To her surprise, Simpson's people got back to her. He would see her - as long as she signed a nondisclosure agreement covering their conservation. Goldman refused.

Much as she wanted to see him shackled and humbled, she said, she would never give Ron's "brutal killer that pleasure."

When a loved one is murdered, those they leave behind often go through a cycle of grief and pain. Many fight to give the

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