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So now what you want to do is actually do a deep dive into the things you've learned

about your history.

Is that right?

Yeah, let me, before I forget to do this again, let me just lay some groundwork here.

I've never declared myself to be a historian.

I am not a historian.

A church historian.

I've just read the books of the church historians, the Bushmans, the Vogels, the Van Wageners,

the, you know, the Queens, there's too many.

I don't want to, and faithful ones, right?

I don't want to miss anybody here.

What I've done, what I thought I was particularly good at was aggregating, summarizing, telling

it in a narrative in a simple digestible short story that I think helps people get to

the gist of what occurred.

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