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Our poverty is freedom. This is our poverty - the giving up our freedom to dispose of things, to choose, to possess

Mother Teresa

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Mother Teresa
Age: 87 †
Born: 1910
Born: August 26
Died: 1997
Died: September 5
Religious Sister
Saint
Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu
Blessed Teresa of Calcutta
Saint Teresa of Calcutta
Things
Dispose
Possess
Poverty
Choose
Freedom
Giving

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