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When the mind is exhausted in trying to find the answer, the answer dawns.

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Vernon Howard
Age: 74 †
Born: 1918
Born: March 16
Died: 1992
Died: August 23
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Haverhill
Massachusetts
Exhausted
Dawn
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Answers
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Trying
Mind
Dawns

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