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Proverbs 17:9

Proverbs 17:9 ESV Whoever covers an offense seeks love, but he who repeats a matter separates close friends. [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=proverbs+17%3A9&version=ESV]   Relationships are complicated, it turns out. Take two people, multiply their issues by each other, overlap their peculiarities, interface their schedules, add in their other relationships, and it quickly becomes clear that gears are going…