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The world-famous singer Meatloaf
has just stepped into eternity. 

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But in his life this Rockstar 
famously said three things about

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God. 
And Hal, before we look at 

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number one, I just want to stop 
for a minute and remind you all 

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that. 
This is a man who was made in 

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the image of God. 
And right now, we need to pray 

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for Meatloaf's family. 
The god of comfort will draw 

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close to them and reveal himself
to them during this difficult 

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time. 
Okay, number one, meatloaf 

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famously said, got to be damned 
You know, I want to be damned he

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also said and I would do 
anything for love. 

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I'd run right into hell and 
back. 

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When I was a teenager, I used to
love meatloaf music and when you

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listen to his songs, you can 
sort of hear that he has a sort 

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of fascination with darkness and
Hell. 

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A hundred years ago, you would 
never catch someone say, I want 

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to be damned, but today, very, 
sadly. 

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There are many people like 
meatloaf who say, I want to go 

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to hell some people even say 
hell is To be one, great big 

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party, all the greatest 
celebrities are there all the 

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greatest musicians, the greatest
artists do. 

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When we get to Hell, we'll just 
have one big party with the 

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devil and his demons. 
It will be so much fun, but do 

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you want to hear something 
scary? 

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God will actually respect your 
free will and if you spend the 

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rest of your life saying, I want
nothing to do with you, God, I 

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want nothing to do with Jesus 
Christ. 

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God will say, that's fine. 
I respect your free will spend. 

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Eternity apart from me, you See 
for love to be true for it to be

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real. 
For its be authentic. 

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It has to be totally free. 
And likewise, you can choose to 

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love God or you can choose to 
reject him. 

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God is a gentleman. 
He will not force himself on 

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anyone. 
And if you say for all of your 

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life, I don't want you. 
God. 

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God will say that's fine. 
Spend eternity apart from me in 

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a place where my love is not 
present. 

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Come on guys. 
We've all seen the cartoons with

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those red. 
Little Creatures running around 

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with pitchforks but that isn't 
what Hell. 

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He's like, yes, there is a lake 
of fire there, but he'll is 

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actually more the opposite of 
who God is. 

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You see because God is light, 
inhale, it will be a place of 

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gloomy Darkness, because God is 
hope the residents of he'll have

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no hope because God is peace. 
Those who spend eternity in hell

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will never ever find rest and 
because God is life in Hell. 

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There is no life, that's why 
it's called the second death. 

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Oh, Oh my dear friend. 
Whoever you are wherever you're 

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watching this right now, go 
anywhere, but do not go to hell.

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Number two, meatloaf used to 
sing some days. 

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I pray to the god of SE X and 
drums and rock and roll. 

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Now, I wonder what God do you 
think meatloaf has been praying 

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to? 
Some of you will want me to 

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answer. 
The question is Meatloaf in 

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heaven or hell? 
And I want to tell you right now

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as a sinful man, I am not 
capable of answering that 

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question on. 
Only God knows what happens to a

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man or woman in their final 
moments of life. 

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When that life is ebbing away, 
only God knows whether that 

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person has come to Christ or 
not. 

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But if a person does reject 
Christ for all of their life, 

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right? 
Up until their last breath, we 

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do know, they will not make it 
to heaven, but let me share with

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you a story of Hope. 
One of my best friend's dad's 

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was dying. 
And my friend was very concerned

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because he knew that his dad had
not yet, put his trust in the 

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Lord Jesus Christ. 
And when his father was lying on

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his deathbed, he knew if he went
up to his father and started 

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sharing the gospel, his brothers
and sisters would be very angry 

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at him saying, how dare you 
preach to him, just let him 

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rest. 
Let him have some peace and my 

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friend said he had to come to 
the point where he had to ask 

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himself this question in a 
million years time, will it 

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matter if my brothers and 
sisters are angry at me? 

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No, but in a million years time 
it will matter where my father 

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is spending eternity. 
See. 

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So he bit the bullet and he sat 
down next to his father and he 

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shared the gospel with him. 
Anyway, a few days later, his 

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father died and my friend was 
still very concerned. 

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He didn't know, for sure, he 
didn't know how his father had 

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responded to the gospel. 
So he prayed to God and he said,

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Lord God, would you give me a 
sign? 

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Would you give me some kind of 
reassurance? 

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Because I've just got to know 
where my dad is right now. 

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Anyway, one night he was driving
his car and he received a Phone 

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call from his brother and his 
brother said, you know, when dad

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died, something kind of 
disturbed me, there's a source 

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of presence as if there was 
other people in the room. 

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And my friend knew within an 
instance, what had happened, 

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Jesus tells a parable about 
where a man of God, Lazarus goes

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to heaven. 
And it says in that Parable that

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the Angels carried him to 
Abraham's side. 

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And my friend knew that the 
Angels had come Carried his dad 

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to the Lord's Side guys, I don't
want to give you a false hope 

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for all of your loved ones. 
But the Bible does say this, my 

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word will not return to me void,
or it will not return to me 

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empty. 
And in those final moments of 

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life, when a person's life is 
failing, you do not know what 

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versus might come to their minds
that time when you shared the 

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gospel with them that time. 
When you read a Bible verse to 

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them, you just don't know what 
God can do in those final 

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moments. 
I do believe there will be many 

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surprises when we get to heaven,
but I myself would be angry if I

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did not ask you this question, 
what God are you praying to? 

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Are you praying to the god of 
the Bible, The God, Who created 

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the universe? 
Or are you praying to another 

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God? 
Are you worshiping another God? 

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Because everyone worships 
something, if you go right down 

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into the deep jungles of Papua 
New Guinea, you'll find a tribe 

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there and they might be 
worshipping, some kind of river.

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God, if you go into a football 
match or a football or soccer 

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game, you will see men grown 
men, worshiping their football 

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team, singing chance everyone 
worships something. 

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Whether it be the god of 
success, the God of Pleasure, 

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the god of money, the god of 
self. 

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Every single one of us worship 
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And I want to ask you, are you 
worshiping Jesus Christ or are 

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you serving yourself? 
Okay the third and actually the 

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most powerful thing that 
Meatloaf Wants song was this. 

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He said The Lord, he loves 
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But is that true? 
Does God love everybody. 

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Well, let's listen to the words 
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He said, for this is the will of
my father that everyone who 

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looks on the son and believes in
Him should have eternal life and

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I will raise him up on the last 
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So, does God love everybody? 
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Just look Look at the cross. 
Look at the Great Lengths that 

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Christ went to to show you how 
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If Christ didn't love people, 
why would he have his beard 

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plucked out? 
Why would he have a crown of 

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thorns smashed into his skull? 
Why would he have nails driven 

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through his hands and his feet? 
Why would he be stripped? 

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Naked, mocked beat and clothed 
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Why would he do all of that? 
If he didn't love you, he did 

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that because he died there so 
that you might be forgiven so 

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that you might have a chance. 
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If you will put your trust in 
him, he see you and I have a 

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great debt. 
There are so many sins that we 

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don't even know about that. 
We've committed, our lies are 

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blasphemy are wicked. 
Thoughts all the wrong things we

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have done deserve to be punished
and on the cross, Jesus Christ 

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took the weight of our sin and 
he suffered total Agony there, 

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so that we might be forgiven. 
He died there, so that you might

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have life and so that you might 
not have to go. 

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Go to hell. 
Hope this doesn't sound 

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arrogant, but I know 100% that 
when I die, I'm going to heaven.

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Why do I have a hope in that? 
I don't have a hope in myself in

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any righteousness and any 
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I've got a terrible track 
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I am a sinner, the man looking 
at, you has no goodness in him, 

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but I have a hope in Jesus 
Christ. 

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I have believed in him and I 
want to tell you, if you put 

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your trust in him, you can have 
a hope you could know for sure 

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that you were going to heaven 
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If If you died and then three 
days later, came back from the 

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dead. 
I would listen. 

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So carefully to what you have to
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And that's why we need to listen
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When he says, whoever believes 
on me, I will raise them up on 

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the last day. 
You see, we have a gray that is 

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waiting for us, but Jesus Christ
is in the business of empty and 

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Graves, Meatloaf's fate is 
sealed, and only God knows where

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he is right now. 
But what about you, you right 

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now. 
Now have an opportunity. 

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Your heart is beating, there is 
breath in your lungs. 

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You have an opportunity to turn 
from your sins and to turn to 

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Christ and I've got to ask you, 
will you do it? 

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Will you stop worshipping all of
the Gods of this world? 

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The gods of wealth money, 
self-pleasure sin, and will you 

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start worshipping the savior of 
the world? 

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The lord Jesus Christ. 
I don't know if you've heard of 

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the actress, Megan Fox. 
Well, she sort of made a similar

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claim to meatloaf, we're Said 
she went to hell and came back. 

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