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I was not an atheist. Few people really are, for that means blind faith in the strange proposition that this universe originated in a cipher and aimlessly rushes nowhere.
Bill W.
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Bill W.
Age: 75 †
Born: 1895
Born: November 26
Died: 1971
Died: January 24
Stockbroker
William Griffith Wilson
Bill Wilson
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