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November 1980

Remembering a Girl--Defeated Except Once

She watched this awful thing she was doing to herself - From the March 1947 Grapvine

TODAY, I AM remembering--remembering a girl of twenty-five who was buried not so long ago. This remembering is a form of insurance for me, insurance for more days like today. I don't want to forget the conflict, the frightening struggle she and I had. I don't want to forget how often she won. I do not resent her, and I do not fear her any longer, for now she will have to fight both God and me. And God never loses.

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