"When I was writing 'The Abstinence Teacher,' I really tried to immerse myself in contemporary American evangelical culture.“


-Tom Perrotta

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When I was writing 'The Abstinence Teacher,' I really tried to immerse myself in contemporary American evangelical culture.

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