“I was seven years old. What do you know when you’re seven years old? All my life, or so I thought, we’d been in the city of Alexandria, in the Street of the Carpenters, with the other Galileans, and sooner or later we were going home.”

— Anne Rice

Christ The Lord: Out Of Egypt (2005)

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American writer 1941

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