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The reason I like writing a memoir is because it isn't preachy.

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Donald Miller
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: August 12
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Pearland
Texas
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God doesn't give us crying, pooping children because he wants to advance our careers.
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The times in my life when I have been most happy haven't been the times when I have had the most money or the most freedom or the most anything, but rather when I've been in love or in community or right with people.
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All the trees are losing their leaves, and not one of them is worried.
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When a relationship is right, it is no more possible to wake up and want out of the marriage than it is to wake up and stop believing in God. What is, is what is.
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