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You can't really know where you are going until you know where you have been.
Maya Angelou
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Maya Angelou
Age: 86 †
Born: 1928
Born: April 4
Died: 2014
Died: May 28
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Wouldn't take nothing for my journey now.
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Faith is the evidence of the unseen.
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