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I have to move away from organized religion. The toxic confusion and anger I was feeling in church had become too great.

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Anne Rice
Age: 83
Born: 1941
Born: October 4
Author
Novelist
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New Orleans
Louisiana
Anne O'Brien
A. N. Roquelaure
Anne Rampling
Howard Allen O'Brien
Howard Allen Frances O'Brien
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