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You never know who is including you in their daily prayers, but someone, somewhere, always is. Eva’s banking on it; she’s a prayer junkie. With 22 prayer sites bookmarked, her computer is the Grand Central Station of prayer requests. Her petitions depart each day from New Jersey and arrive in Sacramento, New Delhi, and beyond.…

Emergency-room personnel transported him to the cardiac floor.  Long hair, unshaven, dirty, dangerously obese and a black motorcycle jacket tossed on the bottom shelf of the stretcher – an outsider to this sterile world of shining terrazzo floors, efficient uniformed professionals and strict infection-control procedures. Definitely an untouchable! The nurses at the station looked wide-eyed…

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