Sometimes the story we're telling the world isn't half as endearing as…

Donald Miller
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Sometimes the story we're telling the world isn't half as endearing as the one that lives inside us. ✨ Donald Miller (2015). Scary Close: Dropping the Act and Finding True Intimacy, p.22, Thomas Nelson Inc
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