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Realizing that people should lie when they do makes me a little more open-minded, a little more tolerant, when my child or my partner lies.

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