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Ironic, isn't it, what religion does to people? I guess it's more ironic what people do to religion.

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Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: December 11
Novelist
Writer
Cincinnati
Ohio
Ironic
Guess
Religion
Doe
People

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