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“I guess more than anything, I just realized, okay, one day I had a home to live in and my family around me. The next day, I did not.” quote by Liz Murray — Download Open image

“I guess more than anything, I just realized, okay, one day I had a home to live in and my family around me. The next day, I did not.”

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