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Essays Videos Memoir Reading #51 Zemaitis Mary

Video: Mary Zemaitis was a teenage "Jesus Freak"

  • William Shunn

William Shunn

29 Nov 2012
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At our November 6th edition of Tuesday Funk, Mary Zemaitis bravely confessed her past as a teenage "Jesus Freak," and it sounded a little like this...

And if you enjoyed that, please join us at 7:30 pm on December 4th, upstairs at Hopleaf, for an evening with Julia Borcherts, Jodi Eichelberger, Maggie Kast, Stephen Markley, and Andrew Reilly.  See you there!

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