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“After that first night, I expected not to see them again, as the campus was massive, and none of us had the same major. None of us lived near one another and all of us were in different grades. Yet, everywhere I went, I kept running into these same three individuals. Even though there were well over 30,000 students on campus, these same three popped up everywhere I went. At first, it seemed like an uncanny coincidence. My whole life had been void of these types of caricatures, now they were everywhere. In reality, God was pursuing me; He refused to let me slip through the cracks.”

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Book:Pursued: God’s relentless pursuit and a drug addict’s journey to finding purpose
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Book:Pursued: God’s relentless pursuit and a drug addict’s journey to finding purpose
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Book:The Passenger
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Book:South of the Border, West of the Sun
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