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                <p align="center"><i><b><font color="#A50021">
                <marquee behavior="slide" width="258" height="21">&quot; You are
                beautiful in His Sight&quot;</marquee>
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                <span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt"><font size="2">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
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                <font face="Palatino Linotype" size="3"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
                </span><span style="font-family:&quot;Palatino Linotype&quot;">It was 1999; eighteen years after the rape that I had an
                overwhelming desire to find women that were raped.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp;
                </span>I had to see for myself what they looked like, spoke
                like, the type of life they were leading and if they were
                successful in overcoming the issues that plagued survivors of
                rape.<o:p>
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                &nbsp;<p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-top: -10"><span style="font-family:&quot;Palatino Linotype&quot;"><font face="Palatino Linotype" size="3"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
                </span>I called numerous churches for a support group or bible
                study for women that were raped but there weren’t any.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp;
                </span>I ended up where I started at the Rape Crisis Center.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp;
                </span>I entered a Rape Crisis Group and began to see that with
                without Jesus Christ there would be no true healing.</font></span><font face="Palatino Linotype" size="3"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype">&nbsp;
                </span></font><font face="Palatino Linotype" size="3"><span style="font-family:&quot;Palatino Linotype&quot;"><o:p></span></font><font face="Palatino Linotype" size="3"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype">&nbsp;</span></font></p>
                <p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-top: -10">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
                <span style="font-family:&quot;Palatino Linotype&quot;"><font face="Palatino Linotype" size="3">My best friend gave me a book for Christmas about a
                woman’s journey back from rape.<span style="mso-spacerun:
yes">&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>I couldn’t believe what I was reading.<span style="mso-spacerun:
yes">&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>The author, a survivor of rape, gave me a visual of
                what my life had become, how I minimized the rape and buried the
                pain.<o:p>
                &nbsp;
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                <p align="left" style="line-height: 100%; margin-top: -12">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
                <span style="font-family:&quot;Palatino Linotype&quot;"><font face="Palatino Linotype" size="3">My prayer; please do not wait 18 years or 18 minutes to
                get help.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>There
                are many resources and <font color="#A50021"><b><i> EPAR</i></b></font>
                <font color="#A50021"><b><i>Ministries</i></b></font> together with</font><b>
                <font color="#FF6666"><font size="2" face="Palatino Linotype"> </font></font></span>
                <a href="http://www.tsmwomen.org" style="font-family: Verdana; color: #FF8080; font-style: italic"><span style="font-family: Palatino Linotype; color: #FF8080; font-style: italic"><font color="#FF6666" face="Palatino Linotype" size="3">True Source</font></span></a><span style="font-family:&quot;Palatino Linotype&quot;"><a href="http://www.tsmwomen.org" style="font-family: Verdana; color: #FF8080; font-style: italic"><font color="#FF6666" face="Palatino Linotype" size="3"><span style="color: #FF8080; font-style: italic">
                Ministries</span></font></a><font size="2" face="Palatino Linotype">
                </font></span></b><span style="font-family:&quot;Palatino Linotype&quot;"><font face="Palatino Linotype" size="3">can
                place you on your path for healing and wholeness.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
                </span>When you have no hope, Jesus Christ is the only Hope.<span style="mso-spacerun:
yes">&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><o:p></font></span></p>
                <p align="center"><span style="font-family:&quot;Palatino Linotype&quot;"><font face="Palatino Linotype"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;
                </span><b><i><font color="#A50021">All correspondence is
                confidential!</font><font color="#8A002D"><o:p>
                &nbsp;</font></i></b></font></span></p>
                <p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-top: -15"><font face="Palatino Linotype" size="3"><b><i>
                <font color="#A50021">For prayer requests, questions or comments
                drop me an</font><font color="#008080" face="Palatino Linotype">
                </font> <a href="mailto:writing4him@myway.com" target="_blank"><font face="Palatino Linotype" color="#008080">email</font></a><font color="#008080">!</font></i></b></font>
                <p class="MsoNormal" align="center"><font face="Palatino Linotype"><span style="font-family:&quot;Palatino Linotype&quot;"><b><i><font color="#8A002D">&nbsp;<o:p>
                </o:p> </font></i></b></span><b><i><font color="#ff3399" size="2">&nbsp;</font><font size="1">
                <font color="#A50021">Copyright © 2005
                E.P.A.R. Ministries - All Rights Reserved. </font></font></i></b></font>
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