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How Terry Goodkind’s Sword of Truth Saved My Life
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How Terry Goodkind’s Sword of Truth Saved My Life

By Tim White

Feb 12, 2020
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In January 2006, I was (barely) nineteen years old. I was six weeks into a long and grueling Army medic training program, intermittently single and engaged (it was complicated), and a devout Christian. I genuinely believed that God was the only path to happiness—yet I felt miserable almost every day, and my misery could be explained only partly by my ex…

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