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If your addiction lingers, ask yourself if you really want to release it, because in your heart you do not.

Gary Zukav

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Gary Zukav
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: October 17
Author
Non-Fiction Writer
Soldier
Port Arthur
Texas
Lingers
Addiction
Release
Asks
Heart
Really

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