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He also said we should carve in the year and place where I was born, but I said no. As a man dies many times before he's dead, so does he wend from birth to birth until, by grace, he comes alive at last.

Frederick Buechner

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Frederick Buechner
Age: 98
Born: 1926
Born: July 11
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