"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...

People believe in God because they don't have any other explanation for things that happen.
~ Jodi Picoult ~












People believe in God because they don't have any other explanation for things that happen.

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