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Be grateful that your righteous life molds you so that you don’t fit where you don’t belong

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Richard G. Scott
Age: 86 †
Born: 1928
Born: November 7
Died: 2015
Died: September 22
Engineer
Nuclear Engineer
Pocatello
Idaho
Richard Gordon Scott
Fit
Grateful
Life
Molds
Mold
Righteous
Belong

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