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  • Mysterious Ways

    Balloons From Beyond

    May 26, 2022 1 minute
    By Gwendolyn Stickler, NEW MARTINSVILLE, WEST VIRGINIA

     1986. I didn’t feel like celebrating. It was the first Mother’s Day since my youngest son, Merton, had been killed in a car accident at just 24 years old. Every day since his passing had

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