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An Honest Thief

As I read about all of the refugees

in the world right now—an estimated

sixty million, with half of them

children—my mind returned to this

time of year when I was twenty years

old living in New York. I was doing

missionary work with three other

young men, and the holidays were

approaching. Times were tough. The

GM plant, the biggest employer, had

shut down, and a lot of people were

thrown out of work. In some areas,