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“Think of your life as a construction site - when you get born the first of many scaffoldings and building material gets delivered to site. As you grow and learn, the building takes on shape. And when you die and leave this world, the scaffolding gets taken down and the site cleared, and the building revealed in all its splendor. Life is a constant construction and improvement.”

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