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God, for example, appealed to me as a beardless man wearing a quilted silk cap holiness was something burning, forbidding, something connected with fire while a day had the form of an oblong box.
Abraham Cahan
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Abraham Cahan
Age: 91 †
Born: 1860
Born: July 7
Died: 1951
Died: August 31
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