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Either you will make your life work, or your life will not work.

Nathaniel Branden

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Nathaniel Branden
Age: 84 †
Born: 1930
Born: April 9
Died: 2014
Died: December 3
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Non-Fiction Writer
Psychologist
Psychotherapist
Life
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For I to become we and yet remain I, is one of the great challenges of marriage.
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