My father, who I barely knew -- I only met once for a month in my entire life -- was said to be a non-believer throughout his life.

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"I'm going to be a lot more solid and a lot stronger than I was at 9st, " said Cook, who has been defeated only once in 28 fights.

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"I suppose that temptation kept them alive for as long as it did - which was only about five or six years, but I think I had more than once attempted to disband the group, " he said.

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