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I Was a God-Fearing Teen Tormented by Jesus and Fiery Loins

BURNING LOVE

Hitting puberty in the heart of the Bible Belt is a weird journey, as Charles Marsh explains in this excerpt from his memoir “Evangelical Anxiety.” His solution was even weirder.

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