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Why do they put the Gideon Bibles only in the bedrooms, where it's usually too late...?

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Christopher Morley
Age: 66 †
Born: 1890
Born: May 5
Died: 1957
Died: March 28
Journalist
Opinion Journalist
Poet
Writer
Bryn Mawr
Pennsylvania
Bedrooms
Bibles
Gideon
Bedroom
Usually
Late
Literature

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