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When suffering comes, we yearn for some sign from God, forgetting we have just had one.

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Mignon McLaughlin
Age: 70 †
Born: 1913
Born: June 6
Died: 1983
Died: December 20
Journalist
Writer
the United States of America
Suffering
Forget
Religion
Comes
Yearn
Forgetting
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