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  Eight-year-old Charlotte Sexton had never had a birthday party. Her mother, Jennifer, had been battling brain cancer for the last 11 years, and the illness had kept her from being able to make a big event of the occasion. “My mom was generally pretty sick and tired and had done radiation and chemo five…

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When then three-year-old Shaylie Edwards of Reno, Nevada convinced her dad, Shannon Edwards, to take her to the nearby park after dinner on June 6, 2019, mom Erica Edwards had no idea that their lives would change forever. Not long after the two had left, along with Shaylie’s then-seven-year-old sister, Erica heard a commotion outside.…

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“Trust in the Lord with all of your heart, lean not on your own understanding, but acknowledge Him in all My ways and He shall direct my path,” (Proverbs 3:5-6). Brenda Wilson starts every day reciting these lines. Wilson, a worker at a McDonald’s in Ocean Springs, MS, was recently brought to attention when a…

A GoFundMe set up for a toddler who lost both his parents during Monday’s Fourth of July shooting in Highland Park, Illinois has raised over $2 million. The fundraiser broke its goal of $500,000 within less than 2 hours of being set up and is near $2.5 million as of Wednesday with over forty-five thousand…

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