I became my own only when I gave myself to Another. ✨ Letters of C. S.…

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I became my own only when I gave myself to Another. ✨ Letters of C. S. Lewis. Book by C. S. Lewis, p. 251, 1953.
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I became my own only when I gave myself to Another. ✨ Letters of C. S. Lewis. Book by C. S. Lewis, p. 251, 1953.

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