Modern communication is so amazing.  When I grew up as a missionary kid in the late 70's and 80's communication back to the US was extremely difficult, not to mention expensive.  A telephone call lasting only a few minutes could add up to big $ very quickly and so it was seldom used.  For more urgent communication you used the telegraph system.  Yes, it would have a line of text followed by the word "stop" then another line of text, etc.  Those were the days.  Now we have cell phones, text messaging, e-mail and VOP services, just to name a...

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