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Have your feelings about God changed over time?

No.

Isn't that crazy?

I'm willing for new information to come in.

I'm willing to be told by a burning bush.

I hope, every day I hope, that a burning bush will tell me what's going on.

I'm Rachel Martin, and this is Wild Card.

The game where cards control the conversation.

Each week, my guest chooses questions at random from a deck of cards.

Pick a card one through three.

Questions about the memories, insights, and beliefs that have shaped them.

My guest this week is writer Taffy Brodesser Ackner.

I was kicked out of so many schools.

I was kicked out of the best schools, and I was kicked out of four schools.

I just, like, couldn't find my place as a child.

I was introduced to the idea of wealth pretty early on in my childhood.

My dad was an estate lawyer and he dealt with all these families that would fight over money after someone died.

He saw wealth bring out the very worst in people.

And by God, he was not going to let that happen to his family.

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