"I'm always relieved when someone is delivering a eulogy and I realize I'm listening to it."

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"I'm always relieved when someone is delivering a eulogy and I realize I'm listening to it."

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"This is a lttle prayer dedicated to the separation of church and state. I guess if they are going to force those kids to pray in schools they might as well have a nice prayer like this: Our Father who art in heaven, and to the republic for which it stands, thy kingdom come, one nation indivisible as in heaven, give us this day as we forgive those who so proudly we hail. Crown thy good into temptation but deliver us from the twilight's last gleaming. Amen and Awomen."

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