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The first step of a journey is always the longest.

Richard Paul Evans

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Richard Paul Evans
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: October 11
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Salt Lake City
Utah
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The only way to remove pain from death is to remove love from life.
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Broken vows are like broken mirrors. They leave those who held to them bleeding and staring at fractured images of themselves.
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. . .and every native has a story of winter – stories that usually begin, You call this a storm? And grow in the telling like battle tales shared by graying war veterans. It’s a peculiar character flaw to those of us from cold climates that we feel superior to those who have the sense to live elsewhere.
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When I think of God I feel like an ant crawling into a computer.
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