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I popped out of the womb with a pen in my hand. So I knew I had to write. It hasn't always been easy. Yet I managed to stick with it through the years. And now, just when things were looking up, Bam!, my world's gone topsy-turvy. I'm getting ahead of myself, though. Let me rewind. As a young single woman, Mom told me I had plenty of career options: "Be a secretary or a nurse," she advised, "or get married and have babies." All the eligible men at the time either dribbled from the sid ...

Life offers plenty of rewards, adventures and opportunities. It also presents us with setbacks and challenges. Eventually, we all must come to terms with loss. In a new edition of her acclaimed book, If I Could Mend Your Heart (Shorehouse Books, 2017), St. Paul author and retired pediatric hospital chaplain Mary Farr walks readers through sorrow and back to a path toward whole-hearted living. This is her fifth inspirational book. ...