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“Yes. He loves us all. “No!” Tunic emphatically disagreed. “God does not.” Well, fuck him, then, Raymer thought, giddy with heat and blasphemy. Shame on God. “Because a shirker is a coward.” No, God is.” quote by Richard Russo — Download Open image

““Yes. He loves us all. “No!” Tunic emphatically disagreed. “God does not.” Well, fuck him, then, Raymer thought, giddy with heat and blasphemy. Shame on God. “Because a shirker is a coward.” No, God is.””

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