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Sometimes I prayed for Baby Jesus to make me good, but Baby Jesus didn't.

Barbara Kingsolver

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Barbara Kingsolver
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: April 8
Essayist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Annapolis
Maryland
Baby
Jesus
Didn
Sometimes
Make
Good
Prayed

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a meaningless phrase repeated again and again begins to resemble truth.
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