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The flame of family can warm us and at the same time be a perpetual pilot light to rekindle 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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Warm
Family
Light
Rekindle
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Pilot
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Perpetual

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