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Stories are the untested, uninvestigated theories that tell us what all these things mean. We don’t even realize that they’re just theories.

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Byron Katie
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: December 6
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Breckenridge
Texas
Byron Kathleen Mitchell
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