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Books

Books Exclusively about the Church Without a Name
Authors, Editors & Compilers of Books about the Church
Books with References to the Church Without a Name
Reference Books that list the Church Without a Name
Books with Backgrounds  in the Church Without a Name
Recent Periodicals - Magazines
Manuscripts, Thesis & Essays about the Church Without a Name

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Order Books in North America from:
Research & Information Services Research & Information Services

(Click for Order Form)

P.O. Box 1685
Sisters, OR 97759

Fax: 1-541-385-6236 (24 hours)

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. Books EXCLUSIVELY About The Church Without A Name

Daurelle Chapman, Compiler
Reflections - The Workers, the Gospel and the Nameless House Sect, 1994
(ISBN 0-9639419-17)
Research & Information Services, PO Box 1685, Sisters, OR 97759
Published by and order from RIS

By Lynn Cooper
*The Church With No Name - Known as The Cooneyites, Two by Twos, 1996
Author's Website:  In Defence of Truth
Out of Print

Joan F. Daniel, Compiler
Reflected Truth - Former Workers and Followers Unmask Life in a Large, Little-known Sect, 1996;
Research & Information Services, PO Box 1685, Sisters, OR 97759.
Published by and order from RIS

By Kevin Daniel
Reinventing the Truth, 1994 (ISBN 0-9639419-0-9);
Research & Information Services, PO Box 1685, Sisters, OR 97759
Published by and order from RIS

By Lloyd Fortt
A Search for the Truth, 1994 (ISBN 0-9639425)
Research & Information Services, PO Box 1685, Sisters, OR 97759
Published by and order from RIS

By Kathleen (Kathy) Lewis
The Church Without a Name, 2004, revised. Published by Author
Order from: www.2x2church.com

By Grace & Gene Luxon
*Has the Truth Set You Free, 1990; Published by Author (No ISBN)
Out of Print

By Alfred Magowan
*Outline of the History of a Peculiar People from 1900-1931
Published by G.S., Sydney, Australia, 1931
*Testimony of a Witness for the Defence, 1956
*Cross-Examination of a Witness & Address to Jury,
Published by: The Portadown News, undated
Out of Print

By Everett C. Oman
The Bigots of Boscobel, 1992
Published by Pandoran Publishing Co., Anacortes, WA  98221
Author deceased, 2004, Anacortes, WA 

By Doug & Helen Parker
The Secret Sect, 1982 (ISBN 0-9593398-0-9); MacArthur Press Pty. Ltd, Sydney, Australia
Order from Doug & Helen Parker, P.O. Box 92, Vincentia, NSW Australia 2540
Available from RIS,
Also By Douglas Parker:
*A Spiritual Fraud Exposed, 1954; Utility Press, Padstow, NSW, Australia

By William E. Paul
They Go About TWO BY TWO, The History and Doctrine of a Little Known Cult, 1977 
Rreprinted in TTT by permission of author
Impact Publications, P.O. Box 30526, Seattle, WA  98103-0526
Available from RIS, See: Two by Twos

By Patricia Roberts
1. The Life and Ministry of Edward Cooney, 1867-1960, 1990
(ISBN 0 9510109 4 8)
2. Selected Letters, Hymns and Poems of Edward Cooney, 1867-1960, 1991
3. Selected Letters of Fred Wood 1890-1986, 1997
4. The Go Preacher Movement- An Anthology, 2000
William Trimble, Ltd., Enniskillen, N. Ireland
Available from Ms. Patricia Roberts,  Bridgemont, Drumcullion, Ballinamallard, Enniskillen,
N Ireland  BT942AE     Tel: +44 (028) 6638 8487

By W. M. Rule
*The Cooneyites or Go-Preachers - A Warning, January, 1924, Loizeaux Bros., NJ
Bible Truth Depot; Reprinted in Our Hope (Magazine) January, 1924
Renamed: *The Cooneyites or "Go-Preachers" and their Doctrines
Central Bible Truth Depot, London, England, U.K.; Reprinted by Loizeaux Bros., NJ
Bible Truth Depot, NY Reprinted in Heresies Exposed;
Edited by W.C. Irvine, Loizeaux Bros., NJ
Out of Print

By Phebe Spiller
On the Rungs of a Ladder - Steps out of Darkness, 2003;  
ISBN 1-881825-46-9
Published by Spiller Productions, PO Box 49723, Austin, TX  78765-9723 

By David Stone
*The Church Without a Name, 1990; Published by Author (No ISBN)
 Out of Print
2nd Edition published by Kathleen Lewis in 2004.  

By W.C.T. (William C. Trimble)
*The Tramps or Go-Preachers, (Sometimes called Pilgrims), 1910
Impartial Reporter Printing Works, Enniskillen, No. Ireland  
Out of Print

By Carol Woster
*The No-Name Fellowship; Great Joy Publications, 1988
Carryduff, Belfast, N Ireland BT8 8DN

Out of Print   

By Willis Young - Died November 21, 2007
In Vain Do They Worship, 2000

By Anonymous Author
*A Cunning Cult, undated (12 Pages);
Religion Analysis Service, Robbinsdale, MN
Out of Print

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Belfast, N. Ireland

Order books in Australia from:
E. Coleman
P.O. Box 199
Woden, ACT 2606
Australia
E-mail: liz.coleman@covenant.act.edu.au

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Professing Veteran Reunion Memory Books
Ft. Sam Houston Army Reunion 1965-1972 Memory Book; San Antonio, Texas;
June 17-19, 1992; Pioneer Printing Co., 1712 Macklind Ave, St. Louis, MO 63110

World War II Reunion Memory Book; Charleston, SC; April 19-21, 1995;
Pioneer Printing Co., 1712 Macklind Ave, St. Louis, MO 63110

World War II Reunion – McCarran House, Sparks, Nevada;  April 13-15, 1999
Publisher of book unknown.
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World War II Reunion - 1989 Memory Book - source unknown
World War II Reunion - 1992 Memory Book - source unknown

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  Authors, Editors & Compilers of Books About the Church Without A Name

Chapman, Daurelle:   c/o RIS, PO Box 1685, Sisters, OR 97759
Contact through RIS:  http://www.workersect.org/

Cooper, Lynn:   New Zealand   EMAIL:  lynnc@ihug.co.nz

Daniel,  Joan F.:  c/o RIS, PO Box 1685, Sisters, OR 97759 USA
e-mail:   jfd@workersect.org URL:  http://www.workersect.org/

Daniel, Kevin:  c/o PO Box 1685, Sisters, OR 97759
URL:   http://www.workersect.org/

de Waal, Henry:   208 Mac Ewan Valley Mews NW, Calgary, AB T3K 3T3 CANADA

Lewis,  Kathleen:   5955 SE Roethe Rd., Milwaukie, OR  97267 USA kathy5955@comcast.net  

Luxon, Gene & Grace:   PO Box 8, Lynden, WA  98264 USA

Parker, Doug & Helen:   PO Box 92, Vincentia, NSW Australia 2540

Roberts, Patricia:  Drumcullion, Ballinamallard, Enniskillen, N Ireland,  BT 942AE UK

Woster, Carol:   Christian Wall Center, PO Bx 2873, Columbia Falls, MT 59912 USA

Willis Young:  2881 Richmond Rd Apt. #1009, Ottawa, Ontario K2B 8J5
Email:  bookbywy@yahoo.com

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Books With References
To The Church Without a Name

(In order by Author 's Name)

By Dair Rioga Local History Group
All in Good Faith
Leinster Leader, Naas, Co. Kildare; 2005
See: Chapter 70 - The Church With No Name, p.322
About the history in County Meath, Ireland

By Paul Baker
King and Country Call - New Zealanders, Conscription and the Great War; Auckland University Press, NZ, 1988
See: "Testimony of Jesus," Pp 173

By Ballinamallard Historical Society
Ballinamallard, Enniskillen,  N. Ireland, BT94 2 FY,  2004
Ballinamallard, a Place of Importance
Read:  "The Crocknacrieve Conventions,"  Pp 64-72
About the history of Ballinamallard, Co. Fermanagh, Northern Ireland.  200 pages

David G. Bromley, Editor
Religion and the Social Order - Sex, Lies, and Sanctity: Religion and Deviance in Contemporary North America
M.J.Neitz & M.S. Goldman, Eds,  JAI Press,  (ISBN  1-55938-904-4)
Read Chapter:  "Christians in Hiding: The 'No Name' Sect," Pp37-55 by Benton Johnson.
Click Here to read on-line: 
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By Elmer T. Clark
The Small Sects in America, 1949 Revised Edition Abingdon Press, NY
(ISBN 0-8446-1862-4) Library of Congress No. 49-10200
See: "The Cooneyites or Go-Preachers," Page 184
Out of Print

By Rev. Richard Lee Cole, M.A. B.D.
History of Methodism in Ireland 1860-1960
Irish Methodist Publishing Co. Ltd., Epworth House, Belfast N. Ireland, 1960
See Heading: "World War, 1910-1920," Pp 100-101
Out of Print

By Dr. Eryl Davies
Truth Under Attack; Evangelical Press, 1996; County Durham, England
(ISBN: 0-85234-341-8)
See: "Cooneyites: `Go Preachers,'"  Pp 99-101
Order today from Amazon 

By Ronald M. Enroth
Churches that Abuse, 1992, Zondervan Publishing House;  (ISBN 0-310-53290-6)
Dr. Ronald M. Enroth, Professor of Sociology, Westmont College
955 La Paz Road, Santa Barbara, CA  93108-1099; Tel:  805/565-6776
See: "Two-By-Twos;" Pp 133-135, 155.

By David Grant
Out in the Cold - Pacifists & Conscientious; Objectors in New Zealand during World War II
Reed Methuen Publishers, Ltd, 1986 Auckland, NZ
See:  Christian Assembly, Pp 157, 165-6
Out of Print

By Esther C. Hall
My Book of Remembrance
Harlo Press, Detroit, MI, 1982

Edited by Richard Hanson
The James & Ina Hill Clan, 1987
The Hanson Book Company, Portland, OR
See: William Irvine, Pp 7-9
Out of Print

By Branson Hopkins
Unmasking Christadelphianism: The Hopelessness of "The Hope"
Jubilee Publishers, PO Box 36-44 Wellington 6330 New Zealand
ISBN: 0-9583417-8-8
See:  Deceptive Influence, Wm Irvine, p. 8

By James Hutchison
Weavers, Miners and the Open Book - A History of Kilsyth;
Cumbernauld, Scotland: Kelvinprint, 1986 (ISBN 0 9511362)
See: "Cooneyites," Pp 72, 170

By William C. Irvine, Compiler
Timely Warnings, 1917; renamed:  *Heresies Exposed, 1973 (29 printings)
By W.M.R., Loizeaux Brothers, Neptune, NJ;
See Chapter: "The Cooneyites or Go-Preachers and Their Doctrines,"  Pp 73-78
This chapter is a reprint of the booklet by W. M. Rule:
The Cooneyites or Go-Preachers - A Warning
Out of Print

Rebuttal to above Booklet
By Leonard Ashby
A Different Gospel, An examination of the teaching of the Cooneyites
By Pickering & Inglis, London, 1939
See: pp 14
Out of Print

By Dr. Cornelius J. Jaenen
The Apostles' Doctrine and Fellowship.  A documentary history of the early church and restorationist movements.
(ISBN I-894508-48-3)
Publisher:  Legas Publishing, Ottawa, Toronto 
4 Wood Aster Bay, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada K2R 1B3
TEL:  613-562-5217; FAX:  613-562-5138
See "Nameless spiritual fellowship," Pages 518-end.

By Jessica Keyes
The Ultimate Multimedia Handbook; McGraw-Hill, 1997;
ISBN: 0-07-034530-9
See Photos,  Pp 59.2-3

By Dr. P. J. Lineham
There We Found Brethren, 1977; Palmerston North, New Zealand
See:  Cooneyites, Pp. 81, 97
Out of Print

By Peadar Livingstone
The Fermanagh Story, 1969 Publisher:
Clogher Historical Society; St. Michael's College, Enniskillen, N. Ireland; 1990
Publisher: L.W.N. Hall, Booksellers; Enniskillen, No. Ireland;
Heading: "The Dippers," Page 234
Out of Print

By Lorri MacGregor
Coping with the Cults - Practical Insight for Concerned Christians, 1992
(ISBN 0-89081-940-8); Harvest House Publishers, Eugene, OR
See: "Cooneyites (Two by Twos)," Page 179
MacGregor Ministries

By William Edward Mann
Sect, Cult and Church in Alberta, 1955;
University of Toronto Press, Toronto, Canada
See: "Cooneyites," Pp 15,27-28,30,33,45,56,70,108,110,116
Out of Print

By John F. Mulholland
Hawaii's Religions, 1970; Charles E. Tuttle Co., Rutland, VT
See Heading:  "A Church Without A Name," Page 205
Out of Print

By Casper B. Nervig
Christian Truth and Religious Delusions, 1941;
Augsburg Publishing House, USA
Chapter IX, See "Two-By-Twos;" By J. Oswald Sanders
Out of Print

By Arthur Carl Piepkorn
Profiles in Belief - Vol. III-IV Holiness and Pentecostal Bodies and Evangelical, Fundamental and other Charismatic Churches.  
HarperCollins (June, 1979) AISN 9998575508
Out of print.

By Jon E. Quick
Odyssey of a Soul in Bondage
ISBN 978-0-9639419-5-4; Library of Congress Control No. 2007942144
112 pages, soft cover
The story of one man's journey out of the spiritual prison of psychological and emotional bondage
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By J. Oswald Sanders
Cults & Isms, Ancient and Modern, 1962
Zondervan Publishing House, Grand Rapids, MI
See Heading: "Cooneyites," Page 166
Out of Print

By J. Oswald Sanders and J. Stafford Wright
Some Modern Religions, 1963; The Tyndale Press, London, England  U.K.
See Heading: "Cooneyites," Page 69
Out of Print

Compiled and Edited by Clifford W. Smith
Yesterdays of Brome County, 1976; The Brome County Historical Society,
Publisher; Brome Lake, Knowlton, Quebec, Canada
See Pp 119-120
Out of Print

By Alan Stanley
I met Murder on the way – The Story of the Pearsons of Coolacrease (Ireland)
ISBN: 095017588
The Leinster Leader Ltd., Naas, Co. Kildare, Ireland, 2005
In Memory of Richard and Abraham Pearson, cruelly executed June, 1921
See: Cooneyites, Christian Conventions, pp 32-33

By Rev. C. C. Stimson
The Price to be PAID - The Tramp Preachers, 1988
Publisher: Peaceprint - The Brotherhood Church, Stapleton, Ponteract, Yorks, ISBN 8719300
See: pp. 47-49
Out of Print

Edited by Bryan R. Wilson
The Social Impact of New Religious Movements,  First Edition, 1981
(ISBN 0-932894-09-7)
Unification Theological Seminary, Barrytown, NY. Distributor: Rose of Sharon Press, NY, NY;
Chapter by Roy Wallis, Professor of Sociology, Queens University, Belfast, Pg 97:
Yesterday's Children: Cultural and Structural Change in a New Religious Movement.
See: "Cooneyites," Pp 122-133
Note:  Reportedly Prof. Wallis committed suicide in the early 1990's.
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By Windthorst History Book Committee, 1983
Windthorst Memories, A History of Windthorst and District,
Saskatchewan, Canada, 1806-1981; Windthorst, Saskatchewan, Canada
See: "The Church In The Home," Page 258
Out of Print

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Reference Books That List The Church Without a Name

The Canadian Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition, Vol. I A-Edu, 1988
(ISBN 0-88830-326-2); Hurtig Publishers, Ltd, Edmonton, Canada
Heading: "Christians, Assemblies of," Page 424

By Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi
The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Active New Religions, Sects and Cults, 1993
Rosen Publishing Group, Inc., NY, NY; (ISBN 0-8239-1505-0)
Heading: "The Two-By-Two's," Page 298
Order 2nd Ed., 1997, Rosen Publishing Group;  ISBN:  0823925862
Order today from Amazon 

By Dr. J. Gordon Melton
Encyclopedia of American Religions, 5th Ed.; Gale Research, Inc
6th Edition:  Pp               , 1998 (ISBN 0-8103-8417-5)
5th Edition:  Pp 501-502, 1996 (ISBN 0-8103-7714-4)
4th Edition:  Pp 558-559, 1992 (ISBN 0-8103-6904-4)
3rd Edition:  Pp 507-509, 1989 (ISBN 0-685-48433-5)
Heading: "The Two-By-Two's"
Order 6th Edition from Amazon

By J. Gordon Melton
Encyclopedia of American Religions, Vol. 1, 1978 (ISBN 0-8434-6437)
McGrath Publishing Company, Wilmington, NC; Pp 443-445; Footnotes 57-59 on Pg 550
Heading: "The Two-By-Two's"

Dr. J. Gordon Melton, Director, Institute for the Study of American Religions
P.O. Box 90709, Santa Barbara, CA 93109-0709
Gale Research, 835 Penobscot Bldg, Detroit, MI  48226-4094

By Robert Humphreys and Rowland Ward
Religious Bodies in Australia - A Comprehensive Guide, Third Edition
(ISBN 0646-24552 X)
New Melbourne Press, 1995; 358 Mountain Hwy, Wantirna, Victoria, 3152
Pp 218-219

By Lefferts A. Loetscher, Editor
Twentieth Century Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge (The New Schaff-Herzog),
Baker Book House, Grand Rapids, MI, 1955; Heading: "Cooneyites," Page 298
Order today from Amazon

David Barrett, Editor
World Christian Encyclopedia, 1982
Oxford University Press, NY, NY; (ISBN 0-19-5724356); Heading: "Cooneyites"
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Books Using 2x2 Backgrounds

By Shelley Bates
Grounds to Believe
Steeple Hill Books, 2004, 2007 (ISBN 0-373-78610-7)
Order today from Amazon.com

By Shelley Bates
Pocketful of Pearls
FaithWords, 2005 (ISBN 0-446-69491-6)
Order today from Amazon.com

By Shelley Bates
A Sounding Brass
FaithWords, 2006 (ISBN 0-446-69492-4)
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By Henry de Waal
The Church That Is In Their House, 1966
Myrtle Tree Press, 8120 Beddington Blvd NW, Suite 809, Calgary, Alberta, Canada T3K 2A8

By Neil Greene
The Badgertots, 2004
Authorhouse, 1663 Liberty Drive #200, Bloomington, IN 47403 USA
800-839-8640; www.AuthorHouse.com

By Faye Cashatt Lewis (M.D.)
Nothing to Make a Shadow, 1972; Iowa State University Press, Ames, IA;
Chapter 15: The Preacher Ladies, Pp 119-124  [NOTE:  Two sister workers in the story: Miss Hannah Nystrom who entered the work in Nebraska in 1913, and Miss Gibbs who was Emma Gill]
Out of Print

By Lou Mandler
This Storied Land:  A Montana Memoir, 2004
Publisher:  Pronghorn Press (pronghornpress.org)
Library of Congress Control No. 2002105569
ISBN:  1-932636-05-6; paperback, 268 pages
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By Raymond Reid
The Gate Seldom Found
Published by Harvest House Publishers, 2004
ISBN:  0-7369-1369-6
Available from:  Cedar Mill Publishing, R.R. #6, Guelph, Ontario N1H 6J3
519-822-0952;  edress:  cmpublishing@hotmail.com
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Christianbook.com and in Australia at Koorong.com

ISBN: 0968795609
By Will Weaver
A Gravestone Made of Wheat, 1989;  Short Story: "Gabriel's Feather," Pp 39-59;
Simon and Schuster, NYC, NY;
"Author grew up in the faith but no longer follows it", (Birmingham Post-Herald, Birmingham, AL, Nov. 8, 1986, Page A3)
Order today from Amazon

ISBN: 03744324859
By Will Weaver (Professor of English at Bemidji State Univ, MN, 2005)
Full Service, 2005; 240 pages
Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
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By Bernice Gerard (ISBN 1-55011-071-3)
Bernice Gerard - Today and for Life, 1988;
Welch Publishing Co., Inc.; 960 The Gateway, Burlington, Ontario L7L 5K7 Canada
Order from:  Bernice Gerard Ministries, Box 2100 Blaine, WA, 98231;
or Box 3366, Vancouver, BC  V6B 3Y3  Canada

Bby Bob Williston
The Unworthy Servant
Order from: Xlibris.com Bookstore
ISBN13: 978-1-4363-3611-6 (Trade Paperback)
ISBN: 1-4363-3611-2 (Trade Paperback)
ISBN13: 978-1-4363-3612-3 (Hardback)
ISBN: 1-4363-3612-0 (Hardback)
Pages: 405
Subject: FICTION / Religious
Subject: FICTION / General

By Bob Williston
Making the Way Straight
Order today from www.lulu.com
(ISBN: 978-1-4357-0203-5) 2007 (241 pages)

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  Post-1965 Periodicals - Magazines

Concordia Theological Monthly published by Concordia Publishing House, St. Louis, MO;
Vol. XLIII January 1972, No. 1;  Pp 36-41
"Brief Studies: Christian Fellowship (People on the Way, Disciples of Jesus, Friends, Two-by-Twos)"  By Arthur Carl Piepkorn (author deceased in 1970's)

Evangelical Times published by Evangelical Times Limited
 July, 1998; p 20
"Two-By-Twos: The Nameless Cult  by Eryl Davies

British Columbia Report published by BC Report Magazine Ltd., Vancouver, BC
September 15, 1997, p 28
"A Church Invisible - 'Sect or cult?' is the question a judge will have to answer"
by Joe Woodard

Religion Analysis Service, Inc.
PO Box 22098, Robbinsdale, MN 55422; Tel: 800-562-9153
Subject:  Cooneyites or 2x2s
The Discerner:
Vol XIV, No. 10 Apr-June, 1994, Pp 7-11
"The Two By Two's: The Workers' Nameless House Sect" by Bob N. Daniel
Vol XI, No. 9 Jan-Mar, 1985, Pp 9-11
"The Nameless Cult" by Ewald Eisele
Vol II, No. 9 Jan-Mar, 1958, Pp 12-15
"Who are the Cooneyites?" by Roy Divers

Western Catholic Reporter
By Sr. Louise Zdunich, Edmonton, Canada
Week of October 7, 2002
"Who are the Two by Twos?"
http://www.wcr.ab.ca/columns/zdunich/2002/zdunich100702.shtml

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Manuscripts, Thesis & Essays About The Church Without a Name

By Keith W. Crow
*The Invisible Church, 1964; Thesis, University of Oregon; Eugene, OR (289.9 C783C)
Note:  Reportedly Mr. Crow committed suicide.

By Wade Gardner
In the Beginning...of `The Truth', 1995; Manuscript, Pepperdine University; Los Angeles, CA

By Ingrid (Larson) Hagen
Inside Religion, 1994; Manuscript, University of Phoenix; Phoenix, AZ

By Shannon Leigh Vivian (For Soc 257)
New Religious Movements
2000; Manuscript, University of Virginia

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