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To forgive is to abandon your right to pay back the predator in his own coin, but it is the loss that Liberates.

Desmond Tutu

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Desmond Tutu
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: October 7
Activist
Anglican Priest
Non-Fiction Writer
Archbisphop Desmond Tutu
Desmond Mpilo Tutu
Abandon
Forgive
Forgiving
Loss
Pay
Liberates
Back
Predator
Right
Coin
Coins

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