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We don't know how much we are capable of loving until the people we love are being taken away, until a beautiful story is ending.

Donald Miller

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Donald Miller
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: August 12
Author
Screenwriter
Writer
Pearland
Texas
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Away
Beautiful
Stories
Much
Ending
Love
Loving
People
Capable
Taken

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