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    Prayers—and Notes—Answered

    Jun 01, 2021 3 minutes
    By Arlene Shovald

    Attending a parochial school in the 1940s and ‘50s, I was taught to pray for things I wanted. Forgiveness was a big one. Seems we were all born sinners and needed to pray for that. But there were other things I wanted too. And one of them was nice weather for the Fourth of July.

    Growing up in Iron River, in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, good weather for swimming was never predictable, and I loved to swim. Every year until I was probably about 12 years

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