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Just because life's meaningless doesn't mean we can't experience it meaningfully.

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Glen Duncan
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: October 17
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Glen A. Duncan
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My mother once told me she thought hell would be nothing more than being given a glimpse of God--then having it taken away, forever.
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We go to the past to lay the blame - since the past can't argue. We go to our past selves to account for our present miseries.
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