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When families discover hidden spiritual histories

My brother and I inherited our grandmother's house and found boxes of her journals about her spiritual experiences that are pretty intense and mystical. We're both having very different reactions to reading them and it's bringing up questions about our family's history with faith that we've never discussed as adults.

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Siblings are confronting the gap between their inherited assumptions about faith and the complex spiritual reality of their ancestry.

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