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Perfectly Human**: Walking Toward Freedom by Jessica Bigby
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amyjuliabecker
I am a believer, a dreamer, a traveler. I love learning, experiencing new places and cultures, and climbing to the highest point simply to check out the view. Music and singing can occupy me for hours. Reading, not so much. My faith, family and friends are the most important things in my life. I find…
Our Church versus the Environmentalists
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amyjuliabecker
We are members of Westerly Road Church, a non-denominational church in Princeton, New Jersey. The church is trying to construct a new building a few miles away from our current location because zoning laws prohibit us from expanding our facility to accommodate the hundreds of members of our community who gather daily and weekly on…
Play and the Living in the Present
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amyjuliabecker
The other day, I overheard Penny say to a friend, “Let’s play categories.” The friend said, “What?” “Categories.” Penny looked to me for help. I explained, “In our family we play a game called categories, where we pick something–like colors or books or things that go–and then list as many of those things as we…
The Gift of a Daughter with Down Syndrome
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amyjuliabecker
I have an essay in the current issue of the Princeton Alumni Weekly. It is called “A Good and Perfect Gift: How a Daughter with ‘Limitations’ Helped Her Mother Break Through Boundaries.” It begins: We found out that our baby was a girl at my 20-week ultrasound. It was probably then that I started to…
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