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    Aug 24 2016 Focus on the Family with Jim Daly
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    Finding God in the Story You Didn't Want

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    Finding God in the Story You Didn't Want

    Date: Aug 24, 2016

    Guests: Laurie Polich Short

    Author and speaker Laurie Polich Short discusses the struggles she endured as a single person trusting in God to fulfill her deep desire for a mate – a longing that was not fulfilled until much later in her life than she had hoped for. 

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