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We're straying from the path of salvation because we remember that we once belonged to the world and were content in that belonging.

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Daniel Quinn
Age: 82 †
Born: 1935
Born: October 11
Died: 2018
Died: February 17
Autobiographer
Novelist
Writer
Omaha
Nebraska
Daniel Clarence Quinn
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World
Straying
Belonged
Belonging

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