Strength In The Time Of Adversity

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A time when there has been strength in the time of adversity. A time when there was adversity in our state was when the young man Dylan Roof went into the African American church in Charleston and killed nine people. The people at this church did not know that when they came to church that night there was going to be a shooting at the church. Even though Dylan killed nine people and many families were hurt people still came together as a city and remembered the nine people that were killed. The whole city and others from different places came together on the Cooper River bridge and they held hands and sang hymns to remember the nine lives. There was strength in these people because they showed the families and other people they cared by going

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