Many of the mostly impoverished penitents undergo the ritual to atone for sins, pray for the sick or for a better life, and give thanks for miracles.

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Now, 23 years later, that trip has come back to haunt him as he and his estranged father (Mark Hamill) are kidnapped back to Russia by the mob to atone for something they say he did.

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These defined-benefit plans can present substantial deductions for small-business house owners trying to atone for their retirement financial savings and obtain a assured revenue stream sooner or later.

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They will naturally demand that Aldean attend a re-education camp, give up his left kidney, and sacrifice his firstborn to Molech to atone for his sin.

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This would inevitably lead to more calls for reparations payments to atone for historic misdeeds, which – equally inevitably – could never be large enough to satisfy the activists.

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