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Our relations with others are not external. They enter into our very identity. And that's why people struggle with them so.

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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
Relations
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Others
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