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If there's one thing I believe more than I believe anything else, it's that you can't fake the core. The truth that lives there will eventually win out. It's a god we must obey, a force that brings us all inevitably to our knees.

Cheryl Strayed

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Cheryl Strayed
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: September 17
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