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But when I went to Harvard, it kind of got washed out of me, partly because people made fun of you in college. If you said you believed in God, they would look at you clinically, you know, suggest that you needed a referral.

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Jonathan Kozol
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: September 5
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