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KEEPING THE FAITH
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|December /January 2021
TY’ANN BROWN, Vice President, Ministries
I was eight years old that Christmas, and I wanted to get something special for my mom and my older sister, Tanya. We were living in an apartment in Spanish Harlem, in Manhattan, close enough to school that I could walk there with my friends—Tanya keeping an eye out for me—while Mom went to work.
This story is from the December /January 2021 edition of Guideposts.
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