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My Mawmaw
Loud, loving, God fearing, are just a few words I would use to describe my Mawmaw. She is not your typical seventy three year old. She is a 5’2 (she says she used to be 5’6 when she was younger) brunette woman with dark brown eyes and a love for Jesus. Life practically oozes out of her in everyway. People are instantly drawn to her cheery disposition and larger than life personality. She was married at nineteen and a mother at twenty. She became a math teacher out of college and later in life she found her way into the ministry. She has a blog about Jesus that has reached over a million people. Her ministry entails going into prisons and reaching out to the homosexual community. She writes a newsletter to all of the people who support

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