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" Death makes angels of us all and gives us wings where we had shoulders smooth as ravens claws. "

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" The lessons I learned from my mother and her friends have guided me through death, birth, loss, love, failure, and achievement, on to a Fulbright scholarship and Harvard Business School. They taught me to believe that anything was possible. They have proven to be the strongest family values I could ever have imagined. "

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