We all have our secret lives. I don’t mean to say that each of us has a sinister side, which we wickedly act out in

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Did you ever really pray for something you wanted? I mean, really fervently, desperately, pray hard for something that was vitally important to you? If

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Although many of his adherents deny it, he definitely had an anti-Semitic streak and was at least, for a time, sympathetic to the Nazi cause.