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A joyful life isn’t about others it’s about the brightness that is associated with being alive. Your path to it is through anything that replaces thinking with pure flight, pure joy.

Martha Beck

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Martha Beck
Age: 61
Born: 1962
Born: November 29
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Sociologist
Provo
Utah
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