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Atlanta Forward: Quality of life

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Credit: Dean Rohrer/NewsArt

By Tom Sabulis
Dec 24, 2015

Nearly 40 million Americans are caregivers, providing unpaid assistance to the ill, aged and disabled. Most of these caregivers also hold down full-time jobs while dispensing random acts of kindness to family members, friends and strangers. Today, our lead columnist writes that we should remember these selfless volunteers regularly give us one of the greatest gifts of all. In our second column, a clergy member connects our climate of fear to Scripture, reminding us the faithful are commanded to be unafraid, even in the face of danger.

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