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A blessing is not something that one person gives another. A blessing is a moment of meeting, a certain kind of relationship in which both people involved remember and acknowledge their true nature and worth, and strengthen what is whole in one another.

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Rachel Naomi Remen
Age: 86
Born: 1938
Born: February 8
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