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Allison Gruber
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There were adults around that night, and I remember little gasps after Sinéad O’Connor’s performance of Bob Marley’s “War.” Unlike Teen Me, they had not been moved by the lyrics of the song or what I saw as simply tearing up some old photo of Pope John Paul II. As far as I knew, back then in 1993, there was no law against it. 

Then, I was only three year…

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