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Each of us has been endowed with the perfect power to be free. Slavery is a state of mind that fails to acknowledge the slave's own power.

Gerry Spence

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Gerry Spence
Age: 96
Born: 1929
Born: January 8
Lawyer
Laramie
Wyoming
Gerald Leonard Spence
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Free
Perfect
Endowed
Power
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States
Acknowledge
Mind
Slavery
Slave
Failing

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