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Our [people's] very saving is associated with our gratitude. Which follows: if our fall in the garden was ingratitude, then salvation must be intimately related to giving of thanks.

Ann Voskamp

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Ann Voskamp
Age: 51
Born: 1973
Born: August 10
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