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Guest columnist Eric Zorn: The "Why?" question has hung over the gut-wrenching story of Marilyn Lemak s actions since March 4, 1999, when she methodically drugged and suffocated her children in their picturesque Victorian home in Naperville. Now petitioning for executive clemency while serving a life sentence, she told me from prison that she still struggles to answer it herself.