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By far the hardest decision I've had to manage [was about my health]. Because I had 51 years of doing it wrong.
John C. Maxwell
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John C. Maxwell
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: February 20
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Garden City
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John Maxwell
John Calvin Maxwell
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