Maude
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Read between November 28 - December 24, 2019
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The pain never really goes away. It gets better, and you finally get to a place where you aren’t thinking about it every minute of every day.
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“Things have been so bad that people just want a change, want to see if there’s something else that can be done.
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Part of Roosevelt’s New Deal, the CCC hired over two million young men from 1933 to 1942 and put them to work planting forests, building dams, and protecting America’s natural resources. Roosevelt was a hero to me. I never voted Republican again.
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Looking back on it now, I think the laughing did more to feed my soul where I was hungry than the food did.
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It felt good, to tell someone about my life.
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was older now and had enough disappointment in my life.
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I was too eaten up by my failures. I counted them back to myself in the dark.
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So I counted my failures and counted my blessings. It wasn’t a regular prayer, but I finally was able to sleep so I could face the next day.
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think now God gives each one of us a measure of happiness for our lives, and some are allowed more than others.