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Love likes to extend itself. If you receive it in a book - or however you get it - then your duty is to extend it beyond.

Alice Walker

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Alice Walker
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: February 9
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The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate.
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