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Life is too short for half-hearted connections and meaningless run-throughs.

Karen Kingsbury

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Karen Kingsbury
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: June 8
Journalist
Novelist
Songwriter
Writer
Fairfax
Virginia
Running
Life
Hearted
Meaningless
Connections
Short
Half

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God, please now my future see, make it clear where I should be. Open windows, close the doors, not my will, my God, but Yours.
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But the Beast was a good person...the Prince looked on the outside the way the Beast was on the inside. Sometimes people couldn't see the inside of the person unless they like the outside of a person. Because they hadn't learned to hear the music yet.
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Reader loyalty will stay because I'm not changing.
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Secular writers can tell a story about the physical, the emotional, and the intellectual parts of a character. But no matter how well they tell the story, they miss a facet that is innately part of all of us - the spiritual.
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