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“The cruelest affront is treating the person as exactly the person he is. We all long to be understood, but not for what we are. We long to be understood for what we might have been had all been for the best in the best of all possible worlds and, at the same time, to be forgiven for what we are.”

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Jo Coudert
Jo Coudert

Jo Coudert is a renowned author whose works have gained widespread popularity. The exact birth and death years are unknown. more

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