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WASHINGTON -- "He never talks about his faith," Rick Perry spokesman Mark Miner said of the Texas governor earlier this year.

Miner's statement is not entirely true.

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Perry has spoken in some detail this year, before and after becoming a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, about how he became a Christian.

But Perry's tale is tantalizingly short on details, and he has mentioned it only a few times. He was most publicly expansive during a Sept. 14 speech at Liberty University, an evangelical college in Virginia.

"My faith journey is not the story of someone who turned to God because I wanted to.

It was because I had nowhere else to turn.

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I was 27. I'd been an officer in the United States Air Force commanding a fairly substantial piece of sophisticated equipment, telling men and women what to do. But I was lost spiritually and emotionally, and I didn't know how to fix it," Perry said.

He went no further then, and has not explained that period of his life