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Intimacy without commitment, like icing without cake, can be sweet, but it ends up making us sick.

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Joshua Harris
Age: 49
Born: 1974
Born: December 30
Author
Writer
Dayton
Ohio
Love
Cake
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Intimacy
Commitment
Sick
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