One day I was talking to Cora. She prayed for me because she believed …

William Faulkner
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One day I was talking to Cora. She prayed for me because she believed I was blind to sin, wanting me to kneel and pray too, because people to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too. ✨ William Faulkner, Eugene O'Neill, John Steinbeck (1971). William Faulkner, Eugene O'Neill [and] John Steinbeck
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