You Are Not Who You Were Last November

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“The human body essentially recreates itself every six months. Nearly every cell of hair and skin and bone dies and another is directed to its former place. You are not who you were last November.”⠀

– Donald Miller in ‘A Million Miles in a Thousand Years’  -⠀

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