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God saved her from suicide and taught her to forgive her abusive mother

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Martine.

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Raphaëlle Coquebert - published on 03/05/22
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She wanted to die, until she entered a church by chance: "The words of the priest hit me right in the heart."

"Born one year after my brother, I was immediately rejected by my mother who had a grievance against daughters. She subjected me to many physical and verbal abuses. She kept telling me that I was a piece of trash to be run over in a gutter. I ended up believing it and accumulated failures.”

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