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The Cat Who Chose the Fellowship Hall Paint
A church paint committee deadlocks for an hour at a kitchen table, until Marigold, a nineteen-pound orange cat with strong opinions, casts the deciding vote.
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Coats on the Bed on Christmas Eve
A crowded house, a bed piled high with coats, and Grandma's quiet word about Bethlehem. A warm, rhyming Christmas poem made for reading aloud with family.
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The Lineman Who Held the Hymnal
Five Sundays after Dot died, Howard Pruitt went back to church and couldn't find the hymn. Then a stranger in a work jacket slid into his pew and held the book.
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