Rebecca didn’t always like having such a big church family. Some were hard to love: Sister Isaacs who cried when she said her testimony and then blew her nose with a honking sound; Brother Minder who said “ain’t” and used double negatives; Sister Shepherd who got a miracle every week, it seemed, probably hogging them all for herself. But Mother loved each one of them ferociously. She talked to Rebecca about how lonely Sister Isaacs was since she’d left her family far away, and how Brother Minder told her once that he was ashamed because he had never learned to read, and how always in true need
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