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Last updated on: September 13, 2017 at 8:09 am By Satya Robyn
This is my very first blog for Patheos, and so I will begin by saying something about myself. Who am I? I am broken. I hurt those I love without meaning to, and sometimes on purpose. I eat too much sugar. I am hopelessly full of ego. I am a teensy bit addicted to Facebook. I tend towards workaholism. I mostly resist, but I love to gossip. I am sometimes afraid of intimacy and of being in community. I manipulate... Read more
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