You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind, and your neighbor as yourself. - Luke 10:27
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Dixie is the mother of three grown children and two stepchildren. In 1990, after returning to her home state of Pennsylvania, she married her high school sweetheart and has become a successful author, freelance writer and speaker.
After 20 years of marriage my husband left me for a much younger woman. For many weeks I prayed fervently for just one thing — the courage to take my life.