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" You don't try to do anything that Morgan Freeman does. He was the voice of God in a movie. That's Morgan Freeman! "

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" I didn't have a catharsis for my childhood pain, most of us don't, and until I learned how to forgive those people and let it go, I was unhappy. "

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