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I felt God really tug at me and say,

pull off the road. I need you, pull off the road.

I need you to pull off the road.

Pulled over and he said, I want you to write this down.

And he said, you are not raising these children,

so they grow up and call you their mother. You are raising these children, so they grow up and call you their mother. You are raising these children so they grow up

and call me their father. Welcome to Family Life Today, where we want to help you pursue the relationships that matter most.

I'm Shelby Abbott and your hosts are Dave and Ann Wilson.

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If you wrote a letter to your stepmom, what would you thank her for? And maybe this, is there anything you would apologize for I would say

thanks for loving my dad well and loving me well she really did she loved my dad I was in middle school when it happened so I wasn't

understanding how important I was but I do remember her taking me in like her own

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