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I am the perpetrator of my suffering - but only all of it.

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Byron Katie
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: December 6
Author
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Breckenridge
Texas
Byron Kathleen Mitchell
Perpetrator
Awakening
Suffering
Life

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