“Kathi Macias has done it again. She has once again told a story ripped from today’s headlines . . . a story about human
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Words and Lost and Found
Special Delivery Kathi Macias
BI R M I NG HA M , A L A BA M A
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© 2012 by Kathi Macias
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Dedication
to set us all free.
and encourages me as God calls me to
Prologue
I best left for others to combat.
the bottom of her priority list. Mara closed her eyes and let the mild breeze toss her hair
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cleared so she could not only come to the States legally but do so
her tio 8
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Chapter 1
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had crushes on her big brother throughout his high school
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thought and dreamed about. Then God got hold of my heart
Leah sat up straight and laid her hand on her brother’s bare
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up calling the cops and seeing those scumbags that prostituted
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responded to her greeting. Then they returned their attention
the clientele.
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doubted it.
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teenager had succumbed to an infection brought on by a forced certain that the girl named Chanthra had been her older sister.
close.
thought. She tried to hold onto her faith in her Christian parents had taught her — a faith that had been
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sleep and try to forget.
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patch up the old car’s problems and nurse it along just a bit graduated from Bible college in a couple more years. She sighed as she reached for a head of lettuce and peeled
through the halls of higher learning. reminded herself.
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she hung up her apron and snagged her purse to head for the cafĂŠ
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a surge of adrenaline to speed up her heart rate.
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tio and foreign emotion for someone such as Mara. room.
mattered.
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Nyesha’s heart.
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all made sense.
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all that really mattered.