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    Fidelem Expectationum: Poetic Reflections for Advent and Other Special Occasions
    Fidelem Expectationum: Poetic Reflections for Advent and Other Special Occasions
    Fidelem Expectationum: Poetic Reflections for Advent and Other Special Occasions
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    Fidelem Expectationum: Poetic Reflections for Advent and Other Special Occasions

    By Victor A. Dirks

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    Victor Dirks, born in the newly founded Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, was spirited away to Canada along with his younger brother, Neil, and parents, Alexander P. and Agnes Dirks, in the migration of Mennonites from the region of the modern Ukraine in 1926. Growing up in a large Mennonite family on the Canadian Prairies, he learned muc

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMOF Publishing
    Release dateNov 28, 2021
    ISBN9781777661571
    Fidelem Expectationum: Poetic Reflections for Advent and Other Special Occasions

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