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You know as an author I tend to realize writing is full of mistakes. Either I wrote it too fast, and it doesn't make sense or just skipped over words and the sentence structure is weak. In the end you have to read over and over several times the words before me. Mostly after letting the words "percolate."

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Beyond the Biblical 40: the journey to 41

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