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What a culture we live in, we are swimming in an ocean of information, and drowning in ignorance.

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Richard Paul Evans
Age: 61
Born: 1962
Born: October 11
Author
Novelist
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Salt Lake City
Utah
Drowning
Swimming
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Ignorance
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Love never gives in or up, holding tight to lofty ideals that transcend this earth and time, while its counterfeit simply concludes it was mistaken and quickly runs off to find the next real thing.
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