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So I taught Sunday school and brought dishes to all manner of potlucks and tried to adjust the things I heard from the pulpit to my increasingly incongruent faith.

Sue Monk Kidd

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Sue Monk Kidd
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: August 12
Novelist
Writer
Sylvester
Georgia
Tried
Potluck
Taught
Pulpit
Heard
Adjust
Faith
Dishes
School
Increasingly
Things
Sunday
Manner
Brought

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