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The answers come when you are quietly willing to be without them.

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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Answers
Come
Without
Quietly

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