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Love is to understand, at last, the suffering of another.

Pam Brown

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Pam Brown
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: January 1
Performing Artist
Poet
Writer
Seymour
Victoria
Australia
Understand
Another
Love
Suffering
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