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Polly Berrien Berends

"The gain is not the having of children; it is the discovery of love and how to be loving."

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"The gain is not the having of children; it is the discovery of love and how to be loving."

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"Anger flees when the Spirit's fruit fills our hearts."

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"These are the quicksilver moments of my childhood I cannot remember entirely. Irresistible and emblematic, I can recall them only in fragments and shivers of the heart."

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"I was a watchful boy being raised by a father I didn't admire. In a desperate way, I needed the guidance of someone who could show me another way of becoming a man. It was sometime during the year when I decided I would become the kind of man that Bill Dufford was born to be. I wanted to be the type of man that a whole town could respect and honor and fall in love withthe way Beaufort did when Bill Dufford came to town to teach and shape and turn its children into the best citizens they could be."

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"A sense of worthiness is a child's most important need."
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