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Oh, sure. Of course, they say now that we’ve got Freud and the motorcar, God is dead.” “He’s not dead just very tired.

Libba Bray

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Libba Bray
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: March 11
Novelist
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Texas
United States
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