Claunch had been at the Healing Hands group home for 18 months, owner John Garcia told KTRK. He lost an arm and a leg in a train accident.

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But his healing hands soon also became indispensable to the Tsarina Alexandra who needed him to calm her nerves, cure her headaches, soothe her rages and echo back her own desires in the guise of the word of God.

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