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Some truths should perhaps be left unsaid. Some doors unopened. An angel once told me to let go of the ills I held too close, to let go of the flaws that shaped me.

Mark Lawrence

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Mark Lawrence
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: January 28
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the United States of America
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