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Beware of organizations that proclaim their devotion to the light without embracing, bowing to the dark for when they idealize half the world they must devalue the rest.
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Starhawk
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: June 17
Environmentalist
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St Paul
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Miriam Simos
Miriam Samos
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