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Why does Richard finally get baptized in a church?
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charlene_turner
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Jill W
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Richard goes through with the baptism for all the wrong reasons. Rather than being baptized as a public statement to his faith, Richard agrees to be baptized in order to save his mother humiliation.
Black Boy