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Love can wait to give it is lust that can't wait to get.

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Josh McDowell
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: August 17
Apologist
Author
Non-Fiction Writer
Theologian
Writer
Union City
Michigan
Josh P. McDowell
Wait
Waiting
Give
Giving
Love
Lust

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