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When you choose not to forgive... it is you who are forced every day to look at life through contaminated lenses because you have chosen to keep them.

Gary Zukav

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Gary Zukav
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: October 17
Author
Non-Fiction Writer
Soldier
Port Arthur
Texas
Chosen
Choose
Keep
Contaminated
Look
Lenses
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Every
Forced
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Forgive
Forgiving

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