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The story that I am about to tell you is about love, sacrifice, and the power of forgiveness. How I became a man of no words, to one of many. I tell you this story in hopes you will also find your path back to whenever you started. There is redemption for all of us. I am older man now. I have lived a good, fruitful life. I have loved, hurt, cried, and show forgiveness to my most hated enemies, but the story I tell you today, is one of brotherly love and how stretch it through the perils of time. Whether you believe this story or not, the miracle cannot be denied. The man I am today is because of this one single moment. Please bear with me, I am emotional man, so my words will sometimes flow with simple elegance and other times as the ramblings
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