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I don't think it is as much a human foible as it is a human curse that we cannot understand the beauty of a thing until it is gone.

Richard Paul Evans

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Richard Paul Evans
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: October 11
Author
Novelist
Writer
Salt Lake City
Utah
Thinking
Gone
Understand
Cannot
Human
Humans
Thing
Foibles
Much
Curse
Think
Beauty

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