“Leadership is getting someone to do what they don’t want to do, to achieve what they want to achieve.”

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Clean: A Proven Plan for Men Committed to Sexual Integrity (Weiss, Douglas)

“At a recent men’s conference in Southern California, nine out of ten of the 565 men in attendance said that lust, pornography, and fantasizing were the habitual, continual, or fatal disconnecting factor in their relationship with God.”

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Clean: A Proven Plan for Men Committed to Sexual Integrity (Weiss, Douglas)

You are God’s solution for someone or something on this earth.

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Clean: A Proven Plan for Men Committed to Sexual Integrity (Weiss, Douglas)

There is a direct connection between your sexual behavior and your destiny in Christ. God has designed you and me to do amazing things for his kingdom, and our level of sexual purity will determine how useful we are. Sex and destiny are linked. This is why the devil works so hard to ensnare you in sexual sin. His goal is to neutralize you through immoral sexual behavior, thereby making you ineffective for the kingdom.

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Clean: A Proven Plan for Men Committed to Sexual Integrity (Weiss, Douglas)

“Nevertheless, I have this against you: You tolerate that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess. By her teaching she misleads my servants into sexual immorality and the eating of food sacrificed to idols” (2:20).

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Clean: A Proven Plan for Men Committed to Sexual Integrity (Weiss, Douglas)

And when the family breaks down, entire societies break down.

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Clean: A Proven Plan for Men Committed to Sexual Integrity (Weiss, Douglas)

If you think you can control lust, you are deceived. The opposite is true, and unless you can see this, it will only increase its hold on you.

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Clean: A Proven Plan for Men Committed to Sexual Integrity (Weiss, Douglas)

But here is the payoff. “To him who overcomes and does my will to the end, I will give authority over the nations—” (Revelation 2:26).

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Clean: A Proven Plan for Men Committed to Sexual Integrity (Weiss, Douglas)

God will decide how he will use you to influence. You decide if you are clean and ready for him to do his glorious will within you. Do you now see what this battle is really about? It is not about sex at all; it is about your destiny to rule and reign with Christ.

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Clean: A Proven Plan for Men Committed to Sexual Integrity (Weiss, Douglas)

God gives you various weapons to protect yourself and those you love. These weapons include the fear of the Lord, wisdom, the Word of God, accountability, honesty with your spiritual authorities and spouse, porn blockers, and accountability software. So many weapons are at your disposal.

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Clean: A Proven Plan for Men Committed to Sexual Integrity (Weiss, Douglas)

A man who is more likely to drop his weapons has no boundaries or very weak ones. He reads worldly material and watches sexuality in all forms of innuendos and scenarios on television.

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Clean: A Proven Plan for Men Committed to Sexual Integrity (Weiss, Douglas)

He doesn’t mind occasional, partial, or full nudity on television or in magazines.

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Clean: A Proven Plan for Men Committed to Sexual Integrity (Weiss, Douglas)

One of the easiest ways to find out the state of a man’s weapons is by looking at his boundaries. A man who is more likely to drop his weapons has no boundaries or very weak ones. He reads worldly material and watches sexuality in all forms of innuendos and scenarios on television. He doesn’t mind occasional, partial, or full nudity on television or in magazines.

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Clean: A Proven Plan for Men Committed to Sexual Integrity (Weiss, Douglas)

When you live a clean life, you also have an incredible influence, but this time a positive one.

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Clean: A Proven Plan for Men Committed to Sexual Integrity (Weiss, Douglas)

Lord Jesus, I am 100 percent committed to love all women today as your daughters and my sisters. I covenant with you to protect all women at all times, in every circumstance today, even in my mind. I hate lust of any kind of all women, and I covenant to protect them all this day.

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Clean: A Proven Plan for Men Committed to Sexual Integrity (Weiss, Douglas)

So when you look at a woman, naked or clothed, know she is a holy hologram and a daughter of the Most High God.

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Clean: A Proven Plan for Men Committed to Sexual Integrity (Weiss, Douglas)

The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity and debauchery; idolatry and witchcraft; hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, dissensions, factions and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like.

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Clean: A Proven Plan for Men Committed to Sexual Integrity (Weiss, Douglas)

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control.

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Little Boy Lost (Trafford, J. D.)

Judge Polansky came back onto the

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Clean: A Proven Plan for Men Committed to Sexual Integrity (Weiss, Douglas)

The road to trouble is well traveled and well known. Millions of men in every culture have traveled it for thousands of years. Solomon wrote of a young man’s road to trouble in Proverbs 7. The young man “finds” a woman and is seduced by his lust and her skills. Here is the most important thing every man who travels this road to trouble has in common, in my varied experience. Not one of them realizes that he is on this road until he has traveled it for quite a while. There are distinct signs on this road, including Beware of Falling Rocks, Fire Danger, and an abundance of stop signs. Still, most men believe these signs are there for other men on this road, not for themselves. Most men think they know what they are doing and believe they won’t let this road take them to the ultimate destination of adultery—or fornication, for our single brothers.

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You Need a Budget: The Proven System for Breaking the Paycheck-to-Paycheck Cycle, Getting Out of Debt, and Living the Life You Want (Mecham, Jesse)

(Personally, I get a little thrill when I come home to a pile of bills I can pay on the spot.)

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You Need a Budget: The Proven System for Breaking the Paycheck-to-Paycheck Cycle, Getting Out of Debt, and Living the Life You Want (Mecham, Jesse)

Todd’s reason for not saving for college, which is that he and his wife, Jessica, would rather put the money toward shared experiences with their family now. This year they spent a sizable chunk of money for their family of five to live in France for five weeks. Their kids were nine, eleven, and thirteen years old at the time, and they’d calculated that if they’d instead put that money toward college, it might have covered one child’s tuition for one semester. Those numbers aren’t bad. I do tout the benefits of saving in small increments (think long and act now, right?), but the decision goes back to trade-offs. When faced with the choice to either save a small percentage on future tuition or have a life-changing family experience,

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You Need a Budget: The Proven System for Breaking the Paycheck-to-Paycheck Cycle, Getting Out of Debt, and Living the Life You Want (Mecham, Jesse)

I also stand behind Todd’s reason for not saving for college, which is that he and his wife, Jessica, would rather put the money toward shared experiences with their family now. This year they spent a sizable chunk of money for their family of five to live in France for five weeks. Their kids were nine, eleven, and thirteen years old at the time, and they’d calculated that if they’d instead put that money toward college, it might have covered one child’s tuition for one semester. Those numbers aren’t bad. I do tout the benefits of saving in small increments (think long and act now, right?), but the decision goes back to trade-offs. When faced with the choice to either save a small percentage on future tuition or have a life-changing family experience, Todd and Jessica will choose the adventure today every time.

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You Need a Budget: The Proven System for Breaking the Paycheck-to-Paycheck Cycle, Getting Out of Debt, and Living the Life You Want (Mecham, Jesse)

Julie and I overspent on groceries pretty much every month for a decade. I’m not kidding. Out of more than a hundred months we maybe hit our grocery goal ten times.

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Clean: A Proven Plan for Men Committed to Sexual Integrity (Weiss, Douglas)

It isn’t smart at all to have an open porn store 24–7 in your pocket or purse.

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Clean: A Proven Plan for Men Committed to Sexual Integrity (Weiss, Douglas)

In premarital counseling, couples should discuss their sexual pasts and address sexual abuse, pornography, or sexual addiction issues.

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Clean: A Proven Plan for Men Committed to Sexual Integrity (Weiss, Douglas)

That’s what I want every man reading this book to hear and say: “Clean! I am clean!”

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Pure Desire: How One Man's Triumph Can Help Others Break Free From Sexual Temptation (Roberts, Ted)

Yes. I’m full of myself—after all, I’ve spent a long time in sin’s prison. What I don’t understand about myself is that I decide one way, but then I act another, doing things I absolutely despise. . . . I can will it, but I can’t do it. I decide to do good, but I don’t really do it; I decide not to do bad, but then I do it anyway. My decisions, such as they are, don’t result in actions. Something has gone wrong deep within me and gets the better of me every time (THE MESSAGE).

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The Secret Soldier (John Wells Series Book 5) (Berenson, Alex)

Serenity Prayer. Cheesy but effective. The wisdom to know the difference.

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issue005

Where your passion meets their need, that is your calling.”

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issue002

Researchers at UCLA discovered a link between high levels of stress hormones and a high density of household objects. [1] In other words, clutter increases stress levels—almost undoubtedly.

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Anxious for Nothing: God's Cure for the Cares of Your Soul (John Macarthur Study) (MacArthur Jr., John)

Life isn’t always going to serve us what we’d like. God will allow trials in our lives to help us pray, trust, and be grateful for what we have. Through it all, the Bible commands us to be content: • Luke 3:14: “Be content with your wages.” • 1 Timothy 6:6, 8: “Godliness with contentment is great gain.… If we have food and clothing, we will be content with that” (NIV). • Hebrews 13:5: “Make sure that your character is free from the love of money, being content with what you have.”

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issue-03

When money becomes more abstract and less tangible, it changes the way we interact with it. Think about how difficult it is for most people to break a $50 or a $100 bill and how readily we spend $47 or $97 online without thinking twice. Disney World provides its guests with Magic Bands for the same reason casinos went to using reloadable cards for gambling—the users have no tangible concept of how much they’re spending, because it’s abstract. Dun Page 8 of 95

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issue-03

& Bradstreet did a study some years ago that found people using credit cards at McDonalds spent 17% more on average than those using cash. [1] Again, abstraction.

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would go so far as to say it’s a part of our job as parents to fnd ways to change how our children see the world by altering their view occasionally. If they see life through only one lens, they will believe the misconception that everyone in the world has what they do, and their blessings will start looking a lot like expectations.

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How to Break Up with Your Phone (Price, Catherine)

And addictions exist on a spectrum; it’s possible to be addicted to something without it destroying your life. Addiction can be defined as continuing to seek out something (for example, drugs or gambling), despite negative consequences.

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How to Break Up with Your Phone (Price, Catherine)

if you wanted to invent a device that could rewire our minds, if you wanted to create a society of people who were perpetually distracted, isolated, and overtired, if you wanted to weaken our memories and damage our capacity for focus and deep thought, if you wanted to reduce empathy, encourage self-absorption, and redraw the lines of social etiquette, you’d likely end up with a smartphone.

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How to Break Up with Your Phone (Price, Catherine)

But we can’t make split-second decisions and think deeply at the same time—the two acts use different and competing brain regions.

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issue007

Unbusy people know they can achieve more by doing less. Seneca wrote, “Everybody agrees that no one pursuit can be successfully followed by a man who is preoccupied with many things

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issue007

Overcome your fear of saying no by reminding yourself, What my family, friends, and world need most is the best version of me that I can possibly be, accomplishing the most good with the one life I’ve been given. Unbusy people don’t get distracted by unfulflling pursuits

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issue007

When a pursuit does not provide lasting fulfllment, we have two choices. First, we can chase after it harder and harder, hoping it will eventually satisfy. Or second, we can reject that pursuit altogether. Choose the latter

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The Power of a Praying® Husband (Omartian, Stormie)

Help me not to react inappropriately or withdraw from my wife emotionally when I don’t understand her. Give me patience and sensitivity, and may prayer be my first reaction to her emotions and not a last resort.

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Reclaiming Conversation (Turkle, Sherry)

Many of the things we all struggle with in love and work can be helped by conversation. Without conversation, studies show that we are less empathic, less connected, less creative and fulfilled.

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40 Scripture-based Prayers to Pray Over Your Wife (Yoder, Kaylene;Yoder, Kaylene)

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Three Reasons Why Churches Remain Silent About Pornography (Kayla Sullivan)

are unsure of how to take the first steps to find freedom from the struggle with sexual sin? As you begin to disciple

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Live Free: Making Sense of Male Sexuality (Witmer, Asher)

For all of history, man has had (and will continue to have) a propensity to fulfill God-given desires in ways that dishonor God as God and serve himself (the creature) instead of God (the Creator).

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issue-05

Secondhand shopping leads to asking better questions as a consumer. Our culture has us wired to consume. It’s easy to accept every fleeting desire as something worth taking action on. In the face of a tempting purchase, the questions I often asked myself were these: • How much will it cost? • Can I find it on sale? By defaulting to the secondhand marketplace, the questions evolved: • Is it worth the time to hunt for it? • Does the purchase align with my values? • Could I use anything I already own or borrow from a friend? • Will I be able to resell it and get my money back? • Is this a wise investment anyway? This new paradigm has influenced other areas of my life too. It’s a refined lens through which to see my choices. It’s changed the way Page 53 of 75

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issue-05

Secondhand shopping leads to asking better questions as a consumer. Our culture has us wired to consume. It’s easy to accept every fleeting desire as something worth taking action on. In the face of a tempting purchase, the questions I often asked myself were these: • How much will it cost? • Can I find it on sale? By defaulting to the secondhand marketplace, the questions evolved: • Is it worth the time to hunt for it? • Does the purchase align with my values? • Could I use anything I already own or borrow from a friend? • Will I be able to resell it and get my money back? • Is this a wise investment anyway? This new paradigm has influenced other areas of my life too. It’s a refined lens through which to see my choices. It’s changed the way Page 53 of 75

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The Boxcar Children (The Boxcar Children Mysteries Book 1) (Gertrude Chandler Warner)

“Yes, indeed,” said Jessie.

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Simple Money 6

Despite making good incomes, 40% of Americans can’t cover a $400 emergency without going into debt

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As with suggesting the friendship in the frst place, you should be prepared to make the frst move in ratcheting the conversation up a notch. And it’s not hard to do. Just start asking questions that get into areas where men have strong feelings. • “How’s it going in your marriage?” • “What have been the most frustrating and the most rewarding parts of your job this week?” • “When was the last time you snapped at your wife or kids? What was really going on there?” • “What’s an unfulflled dream you have?” • “On a scale of one to ten, how hopeful are you about the future?” Page 79 of 115

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The Bears' Vacation (Beginner Books(R)) (Berenstain, Stan;Berenstain, Jan)

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BEDLAM: A Baby Blues Collection (Kirkman, Rick;Scott, Jerry)

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Horton Hatches the Egg (Classic Seuss) (Dr. Seuss)

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Blue Bay Mystery (The Boxcar Children Mysteries Book 6) (Warner, Gertrude Chandler;Gringhuis, Dirk)

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Snowbound Mystery (The Boxcar Children Mysteries Book 13) (Warner, Gertrude Chandler;Cunningham, David)

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All Things Reconsidered (McCoy, Knox)

sun. This hallway is so hot that if Sylvia

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South Florida Sun Sentinel (Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel)

The conflict seems particularly pitched in Palm Beach County, where four people sued county commissioners this week over the mask order. They contend that masks are “harmful medical devices” with “well-known risks and potential for serious injury and death.” Louis Leo IV, an attorney from Pompano Beach, represents those residents and spoke at the county commission meeting June 23. “If we’re going to educate people, let’s learn about pseudoscience,” he said. “It’s coming largely from unethical organizations who profit from sickness and eliminating, not just civil rights, but human rights under the guise of disease prevention. You know what you’re doing is wrong.” Those comments aside, most experts say masks are an essential step to combat the coronavirus. “There is no known medical condition that would prevent anyone over the age of 2 from wearing a mask,” said Dr. Terry Adirim, an emergency physician and dean of clinical affairs at Florida Atlantic University’s College of Medicine. “There is scientific evidence that wearing a mask reduces the risk of transmission.” Just as questionable are the legal arguments against masks, many experts say. “The state has an interest in public safety during a pandemic,” said Malik Leigh, an attorney in Pompano Beach and former law teacher. “Bill of Rights freedoms are often denied so long as there exists a legitimate reason.” Leigh cited the minimum drinking age, fire codes and speed limits as examples where some freedom is curtailed in the interest of the health and safety of the broader public. “I grew up in Asia. Asia has the largest population on the planet,” Leigh said. “Probably the majority not only wear masks, but have worn them for decades. None of them are dying.” “Here, these people are mad because they think they have a right to possibly infect others. They have a right to get sick and die, but not to knowingly or recklessly get others sick and/or kill them.”

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All Things Reconsidered (McCoy, Knox)

It’s important to clarify that young Southern Baptists in the eighties and nineties were raised to anticipate altercations around the basis of our faith, and in retrospect, we were conditioned to misinterpret these altercations as persecutions.

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issue013

a child has been able in his play to give up his whole living being to the world around him, he will be able, in the serious tasks of later life, to devote himself with confdence to the service of the world. —Rudolf Steiner

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Martin the Warrior (Redwall) (Jacques, Brian)

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40 Scripture-based Prayers to Pray Over Your Children (Yoder, Kaylene)

there are two things that are appropriate for every season of parenting – lots of love and lots of prayer. A wise friend once said, “It’s my job to love my children, it’s God’s job to change them.”

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40 Scripture-based Prayers to Pray Over Your Children (Yoder, Kaylene)

Capture their hearts and they will know how to love. Pray for them and they will be anointed with wisdom, peace, and salvation. So,

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40 Scripture-based Prayers to Pray Over Your Children (Yoder, Kaylene)

Capture their hearts and they will know how to love. Pray for them and they will be anointed with wisdom, peace, and salvation.

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Digital Minimalism (Newport, Cal)

matches, and games allow us to push these abilities

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Live Free: Making Sense of Male Sexuality (Witmer, Asher)

A man can live without sex, but he cannot live without intimacy.

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Live Free: Making Sense of Male Sexuality (Witmer, Asher)

Here’s the thing, if my identity is tied to another person’s acceptance of me, I won’t risk being vulnerable and possibly rejected.

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Never Binge Again(tm): How Thousands of People Have Stopped Overeating and Binge Eating - and Stuck to the Diet of Their Choice! (By Reprogramming Themselves to Think Differently About Food.) (Livingston Ph.D, Glenn )

When you care enough, tolerating any level of discomfort FOREVER is suddenly within your power. No matter how strong a craving the Pig might throw at you.

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The Magician's Nephew (Chronicles of Narnia Book 1) (Lewis, C.S.)

For what you see and hear depends a good deal on where you are standing: it also depends on what sort of person you are.

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Later (King, Stephen)

You get used to marvelous things. You take them for granted. You can try not to, but you do. There’s too much wonder, that’s all. It’s everywhere.

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