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I try to think back. I try to remember this life that the Lord gave me ... I just sat there and thought of our Lord and his visit to us all those centuries ago and I said to myself that my great luck was to have had him on my mind for so long in my life.

Dorothy Day. Page 104. The Road to Character.

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