Help with proving the following points form a cyclic quadrilateral

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Let ABC be a triangle and D, E and F be the points of tangency of its incircle with the sides BC, CA and AB respectively. Let P and Q be the intersectiom of DE and Df with the bisectors of the angles ACB and ABC respectively. Show that E, F, P and Q belong in the same circunference.

What I have tried so far is, I have shown that if X and Y are the intersection of the diagonal FP and EQ with the incircle , then if the triangle XYD is isoceles the proof follows.

To show this, I've tried to show that the angles ADX and BDY are equal.

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This isn't true in general.

Here is why. If points $E,F,P,Q$ were concyclic, the power (see here) of point $D$ with respect to this circle could be expressed in two equal ways :

$$DP.DE=DQ.DF\tag{1}$$

As triangles $CDE$ and $BDF$ are isosceles, (1) is equivalent to :

$$2DP^2=2DQ^2$$

itself equivalent to $DP=DQ$ which isn't true in general.

Take for example triangle $ABC$ right isosceles triangle with right angle in $B$ (see figure) :

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Fig. 1 : In a visible way, $E,F,P,Q$ do not belong to a same circle (this can be established by computation).