Lock of hair holds tale of divine care across decades
A long buried memory unfolds as an elderly man recalls a child’s fatal scare. A lock of hair, cut seventy years ago, survived a near tragedy when an axe slipped past a boy’s head, spared by a divine act. The father’s prayer and the curl’s preservation become a family relic.
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