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don't sabotage your own greatness by succumbing to failure!

Terry McMillan

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Terry McMillan
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: October 18
Author
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Port Huron
Michigan
Greatness
Failure
Succumbing
Sabotage

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