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A Night of Long Knives (Hannah Vogel) by Rebecca Cantrell Books Review: PopSyndicate.com

Check out my review! A Night of Long Knives (Hannah Vogel) by Rebecca Cantrell Books Review: PopSyndicate.com

Remembering a great man who meant a lot to me

A few years ago, I got an assignment to cover a school anniversary and I chose to write about the priest who made that school a success. Father Bush was not just the priest who baptized me, but who helped teach me about God and how to be a good person (stop laughing, I have my moments). He retired when I was little, but still came around the school and church and we frequently ran into him in town. He always acted as if I was just the person he had wanted to see. When he died, a different newspaper didn't exactly do a great job in summing up his life. To be honest, that particular paper had a knack for less than stellar pieces on those who had just passed away. So writing about him was my way of paying tribute to him--the tribute he deserved years ago. Oddly, I wrote the article in the early spring in 2007, but they decided to hold on to it because they were running graduation stories. It was then that I realized the anniversary of his death was coming up on the very day the paper

Live to Tell by Wendy Corsi Staub Books Review: PopSyndicate.com

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