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				<description><![CDATA[An evening opened up for me. I phoned my uncle upcountry. I listened to some lectures by Eugene Peterson (who wrote The Message translation of the Bible) over the pass, spent a very encouraging evening with my uncle talking together until past midnight in the typical unhurriedness of life on the other side of the [&#8230;]]]></description>
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