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There is always something to be happy about if we look for it: ‘Two men looked through prison bars, The one saw mud, the other stars.'

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Amy Carmichael
Age: 83 †
Born: 1867
Born: December 16
Died: 1951
Died: January 18
Author
Missionary
Writer
Downshire
Amy Beatrice Carmichael
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Mud
Looks
Bars
Prison
Something
Looked
Always
Saws
Men
Stars
Happy
Two

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