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LIFE’S WORST MOMENT
HARRY walked into the Word of Life office one morning and noticed a new receptionist. He looked again, having the sudden impression that he was seeing the girl of his dreams. His impression proved true. Courtship and marriage followed. They were still in Bible school when their first baby was on its way. It had been announced so often that the chapel pianist had played from coast to coast, that “coast-to-coast Bollback” was the inevitable nickname. As the event drew near, Harry wore a very large pink-headed safety pin on one coat lapel and a matching blue-headed one on the other. He advised his classmates that when the blessed event should occur two pins of the same color would appear on one lapel to indicate a girl or boy. Onemorning, the beaming young father walked into chapel with two large pink-headed pins on his left lapel. At this moment the chapel hour song leader reached into his pocket with a grandiose gesture, and held up one of the long chocolate cigars, which Harry had bestowed on his colleagues. Enthusiasm ran high. Life was full.
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