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I took William Zinsser's advice that you write to yourself and you hope that there are people out there who are like you.

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Donald Miller
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: August 12
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...she wanted God to make sense. He doesn't. He will make no more sense to me than I will make sense to an ant.
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Some people skip through life. Others are dragged through it. I sometimes wonder if we are moving through time, or whether time is moving through us. Light, unlike anything else in the universe is not effected by time. Light exists outside of time.. It is still a mystery to physicists.
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