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Patton Oswalt shares daughter's heartbreaking words after mom's death

By Karen Butler
Actor Patton Oswalt, the voice of Remy in the Pixar animated motion picture "Ratatouille," attends the premiere of the film with his wife Michelle McNamara in Los Angeles on June 22, 2007. File Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI
Actor Patton Oswalt, the voice of Remy in the Pixar animated motion picture "Ratatouille," attends the premiere of the film with his wife Michelle McNamara in Los Angeles on June 22, 2007. File Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI | License Photo

LOS ANGELES, May 1 (UPI) -- Comedian and actor Patton Oswalt, who is grieving since the unexpected death of his wife last month, shared a quote from his heartbroken 7-year-old daughter Sunday.

"'When your mom dies you're the best memory of her. Everything you do is a memory of her.' -- Alice Oswalt, 7," he tweeted.

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Just days earlier, the elder Oswalt addressed the death of his writer wife Michelle McNamara.

"She wrote lines that stung & hummed. 13 years in her presence was happily humbling. #RIPMichelleMcNamara," read his Friday Twitter post.

McNamara died in her sleep at the age of 46. The cause of her death has not been publicly disclosed.

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