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I became a Christian before I got sober. So I was a drunk, bulimic Christian.

Anne Lamott

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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
Novelist
Writer
San Francisco County
California
Sober
Drunk
Became
Christian
Bulimic

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