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The interactions I have are with people who are very kind and very grateful and they say very overwhelming things to me. Somebody who doesn't like what I do or doesn't understand it, then it wasn't for them.

Rob Bell

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