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Never invest yourself in anything so deeply that its failure could cost you your happiness.
Ian Caldwell
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Ian Caldwell
Age: 48
Born: 1976
Born: March 18
Novelist
Fairfax
Virginia
Ian Mackinnon Caldwell
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Happiness
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