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When the light comes into a room, we do not have to say, Now what are we going to do about the darkness? It's gone!

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Dallas Willard
Age: 77 †
Born: 1935
Born: September 4
Died: 2013
Died: May 8
Non-Fiction Writer
Philosopher
Translator
Buffalo
Missouri
Dallas Albert Willard
Darkness
Room
Rooms
Gone
Comes
Light
Going

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