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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 1/31/2023 10:09 AM, First Unitarian
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<div>We need to save and use the prayer at the bottom of this
email—an excerpt from this book. I found it powerfully
moving and deeply religious (my kind of religion, that is).
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<div style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Calibri'; COLOR:
#000000">Dawn Hewitt<br>
Office assistant<br>
First Unitarian Universalist Society of Marietta, Ohio</div>
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<div style="font-color: black"><b>From:</b> <a
title="info@blacklivesuu.org" moz-do-not-send="true">Black
Lives UU</a> </div>
<div><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, January 31, 2023 9:03 AM</div>
<div><b>To:</b> <a title="fuusm@suddenlinkmail.com"
moz-do-not-send="true">fuusm@suddenlinkmail.com</a>
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<div><b>Subject:</b> Thank You for Amplifying Black
Voices</div>
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all creation
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Ourselves in
One Another.</span></p>
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