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Love comes softly, it cannot be forced...cannot bear the weight of our expectations. Love always comes in the surrender - in the falling.

Ann Voskamp

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Ann Voskamp
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: August 10
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Fall
Softly
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Surrender
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