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Born: 9-25-54
Died: November 16, 2003
Reborn: Valentine’s Day, 2004
Current Status: A new man, eternally alive in Jesus Christ.
I can see a day when we won’t have no more victims. I can see a day when we’ll have somethin’ like smart guns. No, not them fingerprint identification types.