The Accidents of the South

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"There's like 10 movies in my book. The guys you were asking me about before with the AMA church, who went south," he says. "They learned a lot of other things that makes it possible for people like me to learn about what it was like." And luckily, they also shared what it meant to them to have those experiences.

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