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Flannery O'Connor
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I am a Catholic not like someone else would be a Baptist or a Methodist, but like someone else would be an atheist. ✨ Flannery O'Connor (1988). Collected Works, New York, NY : Library of America : Distributed to the trade in the U.S. and Canada by Viking Press
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I am a Catholic not like someone else would be a Baptist or a Methodist, but like someone else would be an atheist. ✨ Flannery O'Connor (1988). Collected Works, New York, NY : Library of America : Distributed to the trade in the U.S. and Canada by Viking Press

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