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Forgiveness is setting the prisoner free, only to find out that the prisoner was me.

Corrie Ten Boom

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Corrie Ten Boom
Age: 90 †
Born: 1892
Born: April 15
Died: 1983
Died: April 15
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Amsterdam
Netherlands
Cornelia Arnolda Johanna ten Boom
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