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When my children were born, I didn't have them baptized because I felt baptism was about erasing Original Sin - something the Church said children got from their mother - and I absolutely refused to believe women carry Original Sin.

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Olympia Dukakis
Age: 89 †
Born: 1931
Born: June 20
Died: 2021
Died: May 1
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East Chelmsford
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