Missions
The Season of Waiting
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<span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;">"I'll wait." It was a hard answer to hear from a teenager whose parents had both died from AIDS, and then passed it along to their only child, their daughter. </span><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;" />
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<span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;">Daiana was the girl we were talking to, and we didn't know the stark reality of this Dominican teenager when we asked her, "What are you going to do after you finish school?"</span><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;" />
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<span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;">She couldn't dream any further in life because she was uncertain if her life would last that long.</span><br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20px;" />
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December 16, 2013
