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OriginalGeek

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9. I was 17 when I left home and church in 1981

Reply to Runningdawg (Reply #7)

Fri Jan 11, 2019, 02:30 PM

Jan 2019

And I am a white male - knowing what they teach I know how monumentally difficult it must have been for you (and probably a hundred times harder for you than for me). I'm glad we both escaped.

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