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“Sometimes it takes losing everything to realize what you had. And sometimes realizing what you had can actually make you feel thankful for losing everything. It’s a weird paradox, discovering what you thought was everything – what you ran and worked so hard for – really amounted to nothing.” Todd Saville, My Father’s House”

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