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By Bridgette Bartlett Royall ·Updated November 20, 2025 Getting your Trinity Audio player ready…
One Sunday last month, while at church, I bumped into fellow Black mom, *Rachel, as she picked up her twin sons from Sunday School. We reside in the same neighborhood, and our children once attended the same preschool. Genuinely had been furloughed like roughly 750,000 other Americans during the recent government shutdown. Rachel is divorced and although
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