I don't believe in God, but I miss him. ✨ Julian Barnes, Vanessa Guign…

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I don't believe in God, but I miss him. ✨ Julian Barnes, Vanessa Guignery, Ryan Roberts (2009). Conversations with Julian Barnes, p.116, Univ. Press of Mississippi
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I don't believe in God, but I miss him. ✨ Julian Barnes, Vanessa Guignery, Ryan Roberts (2009). Conversations with Julian Barnes, p.116, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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