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If someone says, Katie, you are out of order, over something I've said, or, Katie, you are wrong, if I defend myself or justify myself, then I have just started the war.

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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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