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My father was a Methodist and my mother was a Baptist.

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T. D. Jakes
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: June 9
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South Charleston
West Virginia
Thomas Dexter Jakes
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Methodists
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I can never experience the next realm of glory until I crucify myself.
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I grew up in hospitals. My father was sick. So I grew up in hospitals from the age of 10. Got to see a lot of suffering.
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