From Libby Wescombe, 21, fulltime Family member in the Middle East.

Okay, I’ll admit, if I was flipping through a magazine and the words “Abuse leads to Murder and Suicide” caught my eye I’d probably read that first thing. It’s more interesting to read an exaggerated, crap-filled story that deals with taboo subject matter over something taken from Business Today.

If writing fictional horror stories is what you desperately need to do for kicks, then by all means do. BUT PLEASE NOT AT OUR EXPENSE!

We’re real young people, with real lives that we live to the full and treasure deeply.
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Name: Aiko Cunningham

Age:19

Nationality: Japanese/American

Whereabouts: Romania, Brosov (mountain with lots of snow)

Sign: Aquarian (Sag rising and Libra moon with the cusp of Boogalo on the forthnight of Manhunted not to mention that those are all on the boutsney of GrassRoots)

Status: Jesus freak
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Elizabeth Richardson, 15, Brazil.
Second-generation member of the Family International

Hi, my name is Elizabeth Richardson, I am 15 (soon to be 16 in April). I was born in the Family International and have spent all my life in it serving the Lord and trying to do my best for Him.

I don’t have half or even a quarter of nice inspiring stories to tell about when I was “young”, because I hardly even remember. I was born in Argentina, and lived in 2 different countries, now I live in Sao Paolo, Brazil and I am a missionary here.

But I do remember one thing about when I was smaller, I stayed the biggest period of my “younger years” with “nannies” and teachers who really loved children and the Family, (more…)