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A DEBT I OWED
ARRIVING IN SENECA FALLS, New York, one weekend in the late 1990s to visit the Women's Rights National Historical Park, I intended only a casual, touristy kind of trip. I didn't expect to be so moved.
I'm just young enough to have enjoyed the benefits of what was so quaintly called "women's lib"—but just old enough to know that the opportunities I had weren't to be taken for granted.
In a narrow sense, I've had those opportunities because of the women's rights movement that was born in Seneca Falls in July 1848, which was spurred when Lucretia Mott was denied a place at an international antislavery convention in 1840.
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Karla Vallance is managing editor, electronic publishing, for The Christian Science Monitor.
March 7, 2005 issue
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LETTERS
with contributions from ANNE LINDSAY KNIGHT, CORALEE H. ZEIGLER, VIVIEN OSWELL, JUDY KIRSCH, SYD DUNTON
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SNAPSHOT OF HEALING
STEVE GRAHAM. MANAGING EDITOR
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ITEMS OF INTEREST
with contributions from Diane Evans, Kim Shippey, Peter Goodspeed
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WHAT COLOR IS YOUR PRAYER-A-CHUTE?
By Mario Tosto
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PRACTICAL, RELIABLE PRAYER
Warren Bolon with contributions from James Spencer
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IN THE PRESENCE OF GOD
By Patricia Kadick
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A VICTORY NO STRINGS ATTACHED
By Herb Jung
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'PRAYER WAS MY ONLY WAY OUT'
By Kate Oyer
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FACE TO FACE
Bettie Gray
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TEXTS THAT EXPLODE UNEXPECTEDLY
LANCE CARDEN
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'I AM YOUR NEIGHBOR'
REBECCA ODEGAARD
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A DEBT I OWED
KARLA VALLANCE
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PERSISTENT PRAYER BROUGHT COMPLETE HEALING
TERRI A. CARVER
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'IS SPIRITUAL HEALING AN OPTION?'
CAROL CUMMINGS
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A FAMILY PRAYS TOGETHER
NELDA C. DE MOTOLKO