After my brother started playing the trumpet, however, I would pray, "Please make my brother a big success!"

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Lying on the dirt floor of my room looking up at the night sky, I would pray, "Please let me have a pretty doll, " whenever I spotted a shooting star.

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"I would like to ask you: Pray for me, " the new pontiff said.

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And then I think the last would be just to pray that we maintain the vibrance of our own faith.

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My health continued to decline, and my parents were told to go pray because if I continued to not receive enough oxygen I would only have two hours to live.

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