The complaint states a cause of action for defamation as against defendants Harris and St. John's Lutheran Church since it is pleaded with the required specificity (CPLR 3016 [a]), identifying "the particular words that were said, who said them and who heard them, when the speaker said them, and where the words were spoken" (Amaranth LLC v J.P. Morgan Chase & Co.,
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