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When you don't believe something, you can't make yourself believe it. There's nothing you can do to believe it again. You either believe it or you don't.

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Byron Katie
Age: 81
Born: 1942
Born: December 6
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Breckenridge
Texas
Byron Kathleen Mitchell
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