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				<description><![CDATA[<p>In my early Christian years, I understood in theory what someone meant when they said that Jesus was the solution to the various problems I had, but I didn’t really get how that played out in my day-to-day life. “Okay,” I would think, “I understand that I shouldn’t just buckle down and try harder to [&#8230;]</p>
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