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I wasn't looking out, I was looking in. I knew something was in me, I just wasn't sure how valuable it was.

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T. D. Jakes
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: June 9
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Evangelist
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South Charleston
West Virginia
Thomas Dexter Jakes
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