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        <p class="post-info">Feb 18, 2022</p>
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          <a href="/home/blog/6901626/coming-home-part-1">COMING HOME: part 1</a>
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          <div class="message"><p>Our youngest Ellery will be five this summer. Her birthday is not only a celebration of her life but it also triggers so many memories and reminders of God’s faithfulness to our family. On June 29, 2017 our family rushed to pack up the rest of our house in Monee, Illinois and drive back home to Michigan for the last time. Time had run out on our original plan of having a home birth in Illinois so plan C was quickly created and in process. We drove away from our house that night in our minivan stuffed with as much as we could fit. I said my last goodbye and a weight literally lifted from my body.&nbsp;</p><span class="read-more pdf__hide"><a href="/home/blog/6901626/coming-home-part-1">Read more</a></span></div>
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