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I don't really understand this sentence. Could someone help break it down for
me?

> 僕が同一人物だと確信に踏み切れないのはこの子の顔が半分しか見えていないからだ。

From the way I interpreted it, it would have a meaning similar to:

> The reason I can't boldly believe she is the same person is because I can't
> see more than half of her face.

which I do not think is correct.
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grammar parsing cleft-sentences
Can someone help break down this sentence? 僕が同一人物だと確信に踏み切れないのはこの子の顔が半分しか見えていないからだ
For what's worth the sentence is not grammatical because you can't say
"確信に踏み切れない". You have to say "確信しきれない", meaning that you aren't quite able to
be 100% sure.

I'd translate it as:

> The reason I can't be 100% sure she is the same person is because I can only
> see half of her face
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I'm an 82-year-old Japanese male.

I will translate the quoted part as:

> The reason I'm not confident of her being the same girl is that I can see
> only half (portion) of her face.
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