Angels on Earth magazine

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Blessings in the Blizzard

ALEXANDER CAMPAGNA, BUFFALO, NEW YORK

Last Christmas Eve, during a record-setting blizzard, my wife, Andrea, and I heard frantic knocking on our door. On our front porch stood two people asking for a shovel to dig out their van. I knew the storm would get

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