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Susan Quinn
By Susan Quinn
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Retired consultant, avid biography reader and meditator
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This story is one year old, but it’s timeless:

Before he deployed to Afghanistan on Feb. 11, [2017] Staff Sgt. Mark De Alencar of the Army’s 7th Special Forces Group had a talk with his stepdaughter, Octavia Osborne.

The Green Beret asked the 17-year-old, whom he had raised since she was 3, to look after her mother and two younger siblings. There was one more thing, too.

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Eustace C. Scrubb
By Eustace C. Scrubb
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Born in 1961 in Santa Rosa, CA. Graduated from high school from Piner High, Santa Rosa. Graduated from San Diego State University with an AB in Speech Communication. I graduated from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School with an MDiv. Married to the very wonderful Mindy. Worked in youth ministry for 30 years (sometimes full-time, sometimes part-time.) I also worked many years as a hotel night auditor. Now I'm a chaplain at the Men's Shelter of the Seattle Union Gospel Mission. Authored, among othe… [more]
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Jonah Goldberg once wrote that he was invited by a group of geeks who had been plotting on how to hold out in a zombie invasion for years to join their group, that he told them, “I don’t mean to overly mock the role-playing game community, these are my people. But when the zombies come, I’d […]

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