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“My faith journey is not as someone who turned to God because I wanted to,” Perry said. “It was because I had nowhere else to turn.”
He also brought a spiritual element to his recollections of the Sept. 11 attacks, noting that many of the students were just children on that day. “You’ve grown up fast and you know the presence of evil is real in this fallen world,” he said.