"I worked 25 years without having my own house and at this age, thank God, I'm able to own my own home, " Garzon said.

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And then came the queasy realization that's had me glued to this train wreck ever since: There but for the grace of God goes my own marriage.

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But my own friends weren't poor urban believers or smug God-talking suburbanites.

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