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Once you've started down that road to self-discovery, no matter how treacherous the path before you, you can't turn back. The universe doesn't allow it.

Lisa Unger

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Lisa Unger
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: April 26
Author
Novelist
Writer
New Haven
Connecticut
Lisa Miscione
Turns
Treacherous
Universe
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Discovery
Back
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Matter
Road
Self
Started
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Path

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