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Sisters In Healing Analysis
“Sisters in Healing” Surprisingly, Mary Dunham Faulkner’s article “Sisters in Healing,” is based on an introspective study of consciousness, as to how far a woman’s determination to help other women through her own brokenness will lead. Notably, I glean the importance of caring for others during personal troubles or conflicts. Likewise, this article reminds me of a time in my life that I was broken and there was a (Mary Faulkner) who pulled me through. Not to mention, Mary lived in foreign country 25 years protecting girls from prostitution, even as she struggled in her own personal life. Ordinarily, in my opinion, most women going through the struggles with her husband as Mary wouldn’t have anything else on her mind. God allowed
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