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The Gift of Self: Modern Culture's Impact on Love

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Address to the students and faculty at Christendom College on how the modern understanding of human love has destroyed all sense of mystery and wonder between the sexes. Audio published by Christendom Media, 2019

*Scene from “The Winter’s Tale,” Augustus Leopold Egg. Public Domain*

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