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Priest Suspects Cuban Spies Snapped Him With Lover

Cutié says girlfriend is the love of his life

By Rob Quinn, Newser Staff

Posted May 14, 2009 7:20 AM CDT

(Newser) – A celebrity priest photographed cavorting with his girlfriend on a beach has hinted Cuban spies might have been tailing him, the Miami Herald reports. "I knew that during some time I was being followed," Father Alberto Cutié told a Spanish-language TV station. "... Read full story »

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