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Around my eighth or ninth year I became interested in the world's religions. I was mathematically retarded but theologically precocious. I began to correspond with seikhs in India. After about the third letter they would ask about job opportunities in America.

Jean Houston

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Jean Houston
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: May 10
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