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The real base of this book

and these conversations began years ago right when I was out of college

and beginning to date this girl and she was the real one that began to raise

these aches and raise these questions. Oh, I remember.

All of a sudden I needed to know more where I was going

and who I was going to be because that it mattered.

There was somebody else in the picture

that that mattered for.

And as we began to have those conversations then walking through identity we were able to have

conversations about women that came to a completely different level. It wasn't just is she cute does she love Jesus?

It was whole new categories of how she living, is she healthy,

and real ways to gauge that.

How to know, how to know, exactly.

So friends, welcome back, John and Sam Eldridge,

reading for you this week from Chapter 5 in our new book,

Killing Lions, and we are actually returning now, having addressed identity.

We're returning back to the subject of love and sex and women

with a wonderful wrinkle in the story of Sam's relationship with Susie.

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