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For some reason, when you become a support to others, you become bigger than you are.

Susan Jeffers

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Susan Jeffers
Age: 74 †
Born: 1938
Born: March 3
Died: 2012
Died: October 27
Psychologist
Writer
Hazleton
Pennsylvania
Become
Reason
Bigger
Support
Others

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