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one word I always use to describe Bethany as radiant her face just lit up um with this inner beauty we met in a
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Homeschool Group um that was in the area I was kind of a quirky kind of awkward uh young teen and Bethany really
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just kind of took me underneath her wings and really welcomed me in and she's just such a loving caring person
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and we gradually became friends uh as Kindred Spirits often do we just loved poetry and art and beauty and we would
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uh you know read good literature and talk about it and she really Drew those things out of me and that was something
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um beautiful about our friendship she really I think pushed me both intellectually and spiritually and in
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every way to just Embrace who I was as a person and the depth and the beauty um of life