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We must work on our souls, enlarging and expanding them. We do so by experiencing all of life-the beauty and the joy as well as the grief and pain. Soul work requires paying attention to life, to the laughter and the sorrow, the enlightening and the frightening, the inspiring and the silly.

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Matthew Fox
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: July 14
Actor
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Abington Township
Montgomery County
Pennsylvania
Matthew Chandler Fox
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