Who couldn’t love that? Carl is right. 76 turned out not to be a problem. Neither did being from OUR HEMISPHERE. The handicappers should have given more attention to the man who came in second last time. Francis might be exactly the right combination of evangelizer and enforcer, with more than the right amounts of saint and scholar thrown in too.
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