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• Charity may be a very short word, but with its tremendous meaning of pure love, it sums up man's entire relation to… — Aelred of Rievaulx
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• Love....... we think about it,sing about it, dream about it, lose sleep worrying about it.. When we don't have it, we search… — Hemant Vaswani
• Love Isn't Perfect, It Isn't Fairy Tale Or Storybook, And It Doesn't Always Come Easy. Love Is overcoming Obstacles, Facing Challenges, Fighting… — Pacifiersucker
• Love? we think about it, sing about it, dream about it, lose sleep worring about it, when we dont have it we… — Ana
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