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Looking back on the God my friend believed in, he seems a little erratic, not entirely unlike her father - God as borderline personality.

Anne Lamott

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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
Novelist
Writer
San Francisco County
California
Looking
Erratic
Father
Borderline
Seems
Unlike
Littles
Entirely
Back
Believed
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