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proverbial Kingdom Come. But occasionally the isolated gesture of an ordinaiy person may rise above the perpetual stream of vain and empty words in the midst of man’s inhumanity to man. "Ib lay down one’s life for a friend” - now that is not another mindless phrase, it’s the ultimate action. And of Biblical proportion!
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