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Toddlers can make you feel as if you have violated some archaic law in their personal Koran and you should die, infidel.

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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
Novelist
Writer
San Francisco County
California
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Toddler
Infidel
Violated
Personal
Law
Dies
Toddlers
Feel
Archaic
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Koran

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