Early Life
As a teenager, Coleman became a devout Christian and also won several bodybuilding titles. Upon reaching adulthood, Coleman began playing professional football and joined the American Football League for three years, where he played for the Houston Oilers and the Oakland Raiders.
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“Many a woman shudders ... at the terrible eclipse of those intellectual powers which in early life seemed prophetic of usefulness and happiness, hence the army of martyrs among our married and unmarried women who, not having cultivated a taste for science, art or literature, form a corps of nervous patients who make fortunes for agreeable physicians ...”
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“You might come here Sunday on a whim.
Say your life broke down. The last good kiss
you had was years ago.”
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