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prodigal son
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    They've never seen a fallen tithe before, much less one who, like the prodigal son, has renounced his sins and returned to the fold.†  (source)
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    After that it was a cafeteria-style dinner, quiet time for personal devotions, and lights out at 10:00 p.m. That first week at Teen Challenge, Adam heard the parable of the prodigal son.†  (source)
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    Tranny gets the full Prodigal Son welcome: crying, hysterical fat ladies, a swarm of little kids piling out of their hammocks, sucking their thumbs and jumping up and down.†  (source)
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    My old friend Stucks Buckley, who had taken to calling me a prodigal son despite not knowing how to pronounce the word, or what its meaning was.†  (source)
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    The wicked wolf that for a half a day had paralyzed London and set all the children in town shivering in their shoes, was there in a sort of penitent mood, and was received and petted like a sort of vulpine prodigal son.†  (source)
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    Thankfully, our second prodigal son was coming home.†  (source)
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    "I see you let the prodigal son in, sir," Coleman said.†  (source)
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    I felt like the Prodigal Son.†  (source)
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    Your prodigal son has returned.†  (source)
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    "Have you never thought of marrying your prodigal son Anatole?" she asked.†  (source)
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    Richard himself describes how in those years, like the Prodigal Son in the Gospel, he longed to eat of the mash given to the pigs, which were fattened for sale.†  (source)
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    D'Courtney stepped toward Reich, smiling, his arms outstretched as though welcoming a prodigal son.†  (source)
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    It may not be a grand feast by traditional standards, but it is a feast, as called for upon the return of the Prodigal Son, even if the son turns out to be a daughter.†  (source)
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