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CHAPTER 1
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23.Ibid.
CHAPTER 2
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CHAPTER 3
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CHAPTER 4
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CHAPTER 5
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2.Thich Nhat Hanh, The Sun My Heart (Berkeley, CA: Parallax Press, 1988), 32, 79.
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