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Realize that the surface personality has no interest in anything which might disturb its darling delusions.

Vernon Howard

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Vernon Howard
Age: 74 †
Born: 1918
Born: March 16
Died: 1992
Died: August 23
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Haverhill
Massachusetts
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Anything
Darling
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Surface
Identity

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