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While I was in college becoming a good Catholic I was also becoming a writer - one haunted by Catholicism.

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Julianna Baggott
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: September 30
Essayist
Novelist
Poet
University Teacher
Writer
Wilmington
Delaware
Good
Haunted
Catholicism
Catholic
Writer
Becoming
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