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Truly we work and live on a streetful of splendid people, whom we are to love and serve even if they are uninterested in us!

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Neal A. Maxwell
Age: 78 †
Born: 1926
Born: July 6
Died: 2004
Died: July 21
Priest
Theologian
Salt Lake City
Utah
Neal Ash Maxwell
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Truly
Live
Even
Work
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People
Uninterested
Splendid

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