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The obstacles in our path are not blocking us-they are redirecting us. Their purpose is not to interfere with our happiness it is to point us toward new routes to our happiness, new possibilities, new doorways.
Barbara De Angelis
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Barbara De Angelis
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: March 4
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