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I’m someone who can sit in a Buddhist temple, and I can sit with Pentecostals or with Orthodox Jews, and I still feel like I am in tune with all of them.

Vera Farmiga

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Vera Farmiga
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: August 6
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