Lemn Sissay Quotes

My foster parents were very religious. They told me that they had not decided to take me in, rather that it was God that had decided it for them.

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  • You
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• My foster parents were very religious. They told me that they had not decided to take me in, rather that it was God that had decided it for them.

  

  Lemn Sissay
  • God
  • Parents
  • Religious