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True intimacy is only build around the freedom to disagree.

Henry Cloud

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Henry Cloud
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: March 17
Preacher
Psychologist
Vicksburg
Mississippi
Build
Freedom
True
Around
Intimacy
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You have to be able to face losing some things you might want in order to be free to do the right thing.
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