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My dad was a preacher. My relationship, for example, with my father -- very difficult, and very painful, and it took me 50 years to wipe the face of my father off the face of God.

William P. Young

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William P. Young
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: May 11
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William Paul Young
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The soul is healed by being with children. --Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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Even though you can't finally grasp me, guess what? I still want to be known.
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I am a verb. I am that I amNouns exist because there is a created universe and physical reality, but if the universe is only a mass of nouns, it is dead. Unless 'I am', there are no verbs, and verbs are what makes the universe alive
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when I live in you, then together we can live through everything that happens to you.
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I'm not an actual author but an accidental one.
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But, enough of that for now. Let’s get lost again in the starry night.
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