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At birth, we are like cartilage - soft, flexible tissue. By the same natural process by which cartilage becomes hard bone, the soft, tender heart of an innocent child can become hardened by the circumstances into which she is born.
Iyanla Vanzant
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Iyanla Vanzant
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: September 13
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Brooklyn
New York
Rhonda Eva Harris
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