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When I go to Africa and spend more time there with people who are the least of the least, those in desperate situations, I am broken by it. But I also find people with so much more joy and freedom living with nothing than I see walking down the streets of my own community here in Tennessee.

Steven Curtis Chapman

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Steven Curtis Chapman
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: November 21
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