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When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship.

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Joseph Campbell
Age: 83 †
Born: 1904
Born: March 26
Died: 1987
Died: October 30
Academic
Anthropologist
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Ethnologist
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Historian Of Religion
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Mythologist
Orator
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Short Story Writer
White Plains
New York
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