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  • Post category:Feelings and Emotions / Mental health
  • Post published:August 19, 2018

“To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.” – Lewis B. Smedes

Source: Forgive and Forget: Healing the Hurts We Don’t Deserve @ goodreads

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