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Ritual affirms the common patterns, the values, the shared joys, risks, sorrows, and changes that bind a community together. Ritual links together our ancestors and descendants, those who went before with those will come after us.
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Starhawk
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: June 17
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Miriam Simos
Miriam Samos
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