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If I work toward an end, meantime I am confined to a process.

Hugh Prather

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Hugh Prather
Age: 72 †
Born: 1938
Born: January 23
Died: 2010
Died: November 15
Writer
Hugh Edmondson Prather III
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Work
Meantime
Confined
Toward
Process

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