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He'd gone to church for forty years and was only getting worse. It seemed like this should tell God something.

Sue Monk Kidd

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Sue Monk Kidd
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: August 12
Novelist
Writer
Sylvester
Georgia
Getting
Church
Tell
Something
Years
Forty
Like
Seemed
Worse
Gone

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