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L' Homme de cour

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“Belief and faith, lies and truth, might lie in the same bed but are mortal enemies. Most do not know this and answers why the world is in trouble today. Belief is the acceptance of an assumption. Belief is a gamble, an addiction. Truth must be observed to work for oneself and the majority of all concerned. Another word for truth is faith. And only by faith can the manifestation of any creation - something that didn't exist before take place. Faith is a certainty, to know without doubt of that which works. To believe anything is to also accept the lie within its core - be LIE ve.”

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“Anna Schrader was another of the women who came to Portland during the Girl Rush, arriving in 1910. Census records indicate she was married at the age of eighteen, presumably in Minnesota, where she was born and raised. She became a gadfly for the local Portland police and provided them with a great deal of useful information regarding bootlegging during Prohibition. This was possible because of her affair with police lieutenant William Breuning, who had gotten her the job of "private detective.”

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