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Every man carries a wound. I have never met a man without one. No matter how good your life may have seemed to you, you live in a broken world full of broken people.

John Eldredge

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John Eldredge
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: June 6
Author
Psychotherapist
Writer
LA
California
Full
Men
Wound
Life
May
Carries
World
Live
Carrie
People
Without
Wounds
Matter
Mets
Every
Seemed
Good
Broken
Never

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