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And once you live a good story, you get a taste for a kind of meaning in life, and you can't go back to being normal you can't go back to meaningless scenes stitched together by the forgettable thread of wasted time.

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Donald Miller
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: August 12
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Pearland
Texas
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Scenes
Back
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