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" People live, work, walk, play, shop, study, and eat with other people. There are few desert dwellers who live alone without depending in some way on people. "

Mother Angelica

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" A family spirit is not always synonymous with family life. Bone of our bone and flesh of our flesh makes for brothers, sisters and relatives, who may be as distant as strangers in a foreign land. "

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