All through the short afternoon they kept coming, the people who counted themselves Father's friends. Young and old, poor and rich, scholarly gentlemen and illiterate servant girls–only to Father did it seem that they were all alike. That was Father's secret: not that he overlooked the differences in people; that he didn't know they were there. Corrie Ten Boom
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This story is about a boy named Jasper who was born to a poor woman. His mother had him at the lowest of the low, but she never let him feel that he was different from anyone else. Even though he woke up every day with his face covered in muck, she taught him that he was just as important as any of the others. He did not have to be special because of his looks or his status. He just needed to be good and sweet and kind, and his friends would come to him on their own.

Source: The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story Of Corrie Ten Boom

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