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Fate gives all of us three teachers, three friends, three enemies, and three great loves in our lives. But these twelve are always disguised, and we can never know which one is which until we’ve loved them, left them, or fought them.

Gregory David Roberts

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Gregory David Roberts
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: June 21
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Melbourne
Australia
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