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How can it be broad to be the same thing to everyone and narrow to be everything to someone? No, a woman’s function is laborious, but because it is gigantic, not because it is minute. (What’s Wrong with the World)

John Eldredge

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John Eldredge
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: June 6
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