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Courts release Aaron Hernandez's suicide note to fiancee

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Former NFL star Aaron Hernandez urged his fiancee to ''live life and know I'm always with you'' in a suicide note he left in his prison cell.

An excerpt from the note was released Friday as part of a court filing by prosecutors.

In the handwritten note, Hernandez calls Shayanna Jenkins Hernandez a ''true angel'' and ''the definition of God's love.''

He urges her to ''tell my story fully, but never think anything besides how much I love you.''

The former New England Patriots tight end was found hanging from a bed sheet in his prison cell on April 19. He was serving a life sentence for a 2013 murder.

His suicide came five days after he was acquitted in a separate 2012 double slaying in Boston.

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