"I always wondered why God was supposed to be a father," she whispers. Fathers always want you to measure up to something. Mothers are the ones who lov...

A sacrament--like marriage--means living a life better than your natural instincts, so that you're modeling God. And God never gives up.
~ Jodi Picoult ~












A sacrament--like marriage--means living a life better than your natural instincts, so that you're m...
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