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Only a few thousand would be gathered there to see her speak, but millions more will be watching on the screens surrounding the massive building. Jackie’s not interedsted. But she did not pull it away. What would they think if they knew who he was? Would they shrink back from the terror of the Lord God’s wrath? Or would a deed

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