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I'm at the atheist end of the agnostic spectrum.

Sara Paretsky

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Sara Paretsky
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 8
Author
Crime Writer
Novelist
Writer
Ames
Iowa
Sarah Paretsky
Sara Paretzky
Sara N. Paretsky
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Agnostic
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Atheist

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