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My mother would take the Band-Aid off, clean the wound, and say, Things that are covered don't heal well. Mother was right. Things that are covered do not heal well.

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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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