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Starla Hester

Starla Hester
Starla Hester is a freelance writer living in Alabama with her husband. She is a member and CCD teacher at Our Lady of the Shoals Catholic Church in Tuscumbia where she recently became a godparent to her ex-foster son. She has several publications on her struggles with infertility.

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