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When we get to what happens when we die, we don't have any video footage. So let's at least be honest that we are speculating, because we are.

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Rob Bell
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: August 23
Author
Non-Fiction Writer
Theologian
Ingham County
Michigan
Dies
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