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I am a terrible and lazy Christian. I do not believe that the Bible is the literal word of God. I just skip about a third of it.

Anne Lamott

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Anne Lamott
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: April 10
Novelist
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San Francisco County
California
Terrible
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