Donald Miller Quotes

I know, from the three visits I made to him, the blended composite of love and fear that exists only in a boy's notion of his father.

Donald Miller

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• I know, from the three visits I made to him, the blended composite of love and fear that exists only in a boy's notion of his father.

  

  Donald Miller
  • Love
  • Father
  • Fear