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Here's what I would want for humanity, because this is what I have come to see is true: it's so simple when we listen to people.

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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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People
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Humanity
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