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If God Speaks Through Burning Bushes, Let's Burn Bush and Listen to What God Says.

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Lorrie Moore
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: January 13
Faculty Member
Novelist
Writer
Glens Falls
New York
Listen
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Speak
Bushes
Burn
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Bush
Burning

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