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NLJ this week: Home Alone: what really happened to Kevin!

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17 December 2021
Issue: 7961 / Categories: Legal News , Profession
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Ever wondered what happened to Kevin McCallister, the eight-year-old (played by Macauley Culkin) left to fend for himself after his parents forgot to take him on vacation?

Well, wonder no more. Writing in this week’s NLJ, RPC partner Peter Mansfield reveals the shocking truth about the main character of the evergreen Christmas movie, Home Alone. Once you see it, you can’t unsee it.

As Mansfield writes: ‘All it needs is for the terrarium to break and the spider of justice is freed.’ 

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