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You need to get down among the people who are the dirtiest and dustiest, and the depravity, and you need to see Christ's light shining there.

Karen Kingsbury

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Karen Kingsbury
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: June 8
Journalist
Novelist
Songwriter
Writer
Fairfax
Virginia
Shining
Among
Christ
Light
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People
Dirtiest
Depravity

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