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Recommended books for healing from sexual abuse.
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Zoroastrians' Fight for Survival (The Viking's Kurdish Love, #1)
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Widad Akreyi (Goodreads Author)
4.70 avg rating — 116 ratings
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Females of Valor (The Viking's Kurdish Love, #2)
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Widad Akreyi (Goodreads Author)
4.73 avg rating — 107 ratings
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Roots of To-Be Templars (The Viking's Kurdish Love #3)
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Widad Akreyi (Goodreads Author)
4.71 avg rating — 56 ratings
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Not Marked: Finding Hope and Healing after Sexual Abuse
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Mary E. DeMuth (Goodreads Author)
4.58 avg rating — 130 ratings
score: 695,
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The Wounded Heart
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4.32 avg rating — 1,751 ratings
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Thin Places
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Mary E. DeMuth (Goodreads Author)
3.97 avg rating — 765 ratings
score: 394,
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4 people voted
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The Courage to Heal: A Guide for Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse
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4.21 avg rating — 8,256 ratings
score: 383,
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Being Mean: A Memoir of Sexual Abuse and Survival
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4.12 avg rating — 82 ratings
score: 300,
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Boundaries: When to Say Yes, How to Say No to Take Control of Your Life
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Henry Cloud (Goodreads Author)
4.21 avg rating — 85,714 ratings
score: 287,
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Rid of My Disgrace: Hope and Healing for Victims of Sexual Assault
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4.14 avg rating — 760 ratings
score: 287,
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Breaking the Silence: The Journey from Rape to Redemption
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Lenita Reeves (Goodreads Author)
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score: 200,
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Restoring Virtue: A Testimony of Healing Through the Atonement of Jesus Christ
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Emily Hope (Goodreads Author)
4.77 avg rating — 26 ratings
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To the Survivors: One Man's Journey as a Rape Crisis Counselor with True Stories of Sexual Violence
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Robert Uttaro (Goodreads Author)
4.03 avg rating — 186 ratings
score: 200,
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The River and the Sea: A Story of Forgiveness
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Julia Laughlin (Goodreads Author)
4.47 avg rating — 15 ratings
score: 200,
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Broken and alone... right?: I think we should talk...
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4.70 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Watching the Tree Limbs (Maranatha, #1)
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Mary E. DeMuth (Goodreads Author)
4.19 avg rating — 365 ratings
score: 198,
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On the Threshold of Hope: Opening the Door to Healing for Survivors of Sexual Abuse
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4.57 avg rating — 338 ratings
score: 194,
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When a Man You Love Was Abused: A Woman's Guide to Helping Him Overcome Childhood Sexual Molestation
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4.25 avg rating — 48 ratings
score: 191,
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Rise and Shine: A Tool for the Prevention of Childhood Sexual Abuse
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Carolyn Byers Ruch (Goodreads Author)
4.88 avg rating — 8 ratings
score: 100,
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1 person voted
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Spilled Milk
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K.L. Randis (Goodreads Author)
4.43 avg rating — 69,372 ratings
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Betrayal: Kyle's Revenge (Betrayal, #3)
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Sofia Velardi (Goodreads Author)
3.18 avg rating — 57 ratings
score: 100,
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1 person voted
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Invisible Girls: The Truth About Sexual Abuse
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Patti Feuereisen (Goodreads Author)
4.11 avg rating — 226 ratings
score: 100,
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Schizophrenic Christianity: How Christian Fundamentalism Attracts and Protects Sociopaths, Abusive Pastors, and Child Molesters
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Jeri Massi (Goodreads Author)
4.14 avg rating — 56 ratings
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Spirit Filled Words: To Awaken the Sleeping Giant
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Jessica Cager (Goodreads Author)
4.40 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Touching His Robe: Reaching Past the Shame and Anger of Abuse
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Leslie G. Nelson (Goodreads Author)
4.42 avg rating — 31 ratings
score: 100,
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1 person voted
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13:24
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M. Dolon Hickmon (Goodreads Author)
3.95 avg rating — 984 ratings
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Blood Gravity
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Gayle Towell (Goodreads Author)
3.96 avg rating — 104 ratings
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The Best Kept Secret: Sexual Abuse of Children
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4.28 avg rating — 32 ratings
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A Child Called "It" (Dave Pelzer, #1)
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Dave Pelzer (Goodreads Author)
4.14 avg rating — 456,548 ratings
score: 100,
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My Silence is Broken: A workbook for survivors of Sexual Abuse and Rape
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4.60 avg rating — 10 ratings
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I Said No! A Kid-To-Kid Guide to Keeping Your Private Parts Private
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Kimberly King (Goodreads Author)
4.34 avg rating — 544 ratings
score: 100,
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The Last Closet: The Dark Side of Avalon
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3.74 avg rating — 303 ratings
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Between the Pages: Where trials become TRIUMPH!
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Thaïs Sherell J. (Goodreads Author)
4.50 avg rating — 14 ratings
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Writing and Madness in a Time of Terror
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4.29 avg rating — 31 ratings
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Scrapes and Scars: No Secrets
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Chavonne Hurdle (Goodreads Author)
4.50 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Daddy's Curse: A Sex Trafficking True Story of a 8-Year Old Girl
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Luke. G. Dahl (Goodreads Author)
3.83 avg rating — 448 ratings
score: 100,
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Healing the Wounds of Sexual Abuse: Reading the Bible with Survivors
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4.13 avg rating — 31 ratings
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Blurred Lines: Rethinking Sex, Power, and Consent on Campus
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3.77 avg rating — 321 ratings
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Playing With Fire
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3.94 avg rating — 3,374 ratings
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I Had No One to Tell
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4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings
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We Too: How the Church Can Respond Redemptively to the Sexual Abuse Crisis
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Mary E. DeMuth (Goodreads Author)
4.57 avg rating — 337 ratings
score: 100,
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Flight of the Goose: A Story of the Far North
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Lesley Thomas (Goodreads Author)
4.17 avg rating — 150 ratings
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If We Ever Tell
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4.91 avg rating — 11 ratings
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My First Thirty Years
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3.68 avg rating — 397 ratings
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I Believe You
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Emily Pearson (Goodreads Author)
4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Owning My Crazy: Learning To Overcome Trauma
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4.62 avg rating — 8 ratings
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When the Piano Stops: A Memoir of Healing from Sexual Abuse
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Catherine McCall (Goodreads Author)
4.06 avg rating — 79 ratings
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Cult Child
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Vennie Kocsis (Goodreads Author)
3.81 avg rating — 715 ratings
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The Armless Maiden: And Other Tales for Childhood's Survivors
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Terri Windling (editor)
4.15 avg rating — 499 ratings
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Something Sacred I Lost
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Emmy Vine (Goodreads Author)
4.82 avg rating — 33 ratings
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The Price of Silence
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3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings
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The Chrysalis Caretaker: A Story of Transforming Love and Healing After Trauma
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Betrayal: Brianna's Secret (Betrayal, #2)
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Sofia Velardi (Goodreads Author)
3.33 avg rating — 61 ratings
score: 99,
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Healing Neen: One Woman's Path to Salvation from Trauma and Addiction
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4.39 avg rating — 134 ratings
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The Obsidian Mirror: Healing from Childhood Sexual Abuse
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4.31 avg rating — 99 ratings
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The V Girl: A Coming of Age Story
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3.96 avg rating — 16,751 ratings
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Raped Black Male
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3.84 avg rating — 19 ratings
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Healing the Wounded Heart: The Heartache of Sexual Abuse and the Hope of Transformation
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4.45 avg rating — 556 ratings
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The Courage Coach: A Practical, Friendly Guide on How to Heal from Abuse
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4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings
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I Never Told Anyone: Writings by Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse
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4.09 avg rating — 262 ratings
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Betrayal: Abby's Guilt (Betrayal, #1)
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Sofia Velardi (Goodreads Author)
3.35 avg rating — 66 ratings
score: 98,
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Suffering and the Heart of God: How Trauma Destroys and Christ Restores
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4.61 avg rating — 802 ratings
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What Is a Girl Worth?: My Story of Breaking the Silence and Exposing the Truth about Larry Nassar and USA Gymnastics
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Rachael Denhollander (Goodreads Author)
4.61 avg rating — 6,817 ratings
score: 97,
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Not Forsaken: A Story of Life After Abuse
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Jennifer Michelle Greenberg (Goodreads Author)
4.47 avg rating — 139 ratings
score: 96,
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To Be Told: God Invites You to Coauthor Your Future
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4.07 avg rating — 1,465 ratings
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The #MeToo Reckoning: Facing the Church's Complicity in Sexual Abuse and Misconduct
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Ruth Everhart (Goodreads Author)
4.42 avg rating — 212 ratings
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Not Quite Healed: 40 Truths for Male Survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse
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4.51 avg rating — 39 ratings
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Living for Today: From Incest and Molestation to Fearlessness and Forgiveness
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Erin Merryn (Goodreads Author)
4.44 avg rating — 55 ratings
score: 91,
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An Unimaginable Act: Overcoming and Preventing Child Abuse Through Erin's Law
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Erin Merryn (Goodreads Author)
4.28 avg rating — 64 ratings
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Stolen Innocence: Triumphing Over a Childhood Broken by Abuse: A Memoir
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Erin Merryn (Goodreads Author)
3.82 avg rating — 448 ratings
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Total Forgiveness
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4.38 avg rating — 1,520 ratings
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Victims No Longer: Men Recovering from Incest and Other Sexual Child Abuse
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4.36 avg rating — 260 ratings
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Allies in Healing: When the Person You Love Was Sexually Abused as a Child
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Laura Davis (Goodreads Author)
4.13 avg rating — 433 ratings
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Safe People: How to Find Relationships That Are Good for You and Avoid Those That Aren't
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Henry Cloud (Goodreads Author)
4.21 avg rating — 5,543 ratings
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Survivor Prayers: Talking with God about Childhood Sexual Abuse
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4.44 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Mission of Mercy: Allowing God to Use YOU to Make a Difference in Others
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