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Sonoma County: A Short Story

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Each day I’d drive home along the back roads of Sonoma County. I’d pass many plots of farm land but there was one bit of land that always seemed so enchanting and beautiful. So many acres of land and yet none like this one. One day I the land owner walking out to his mailbox and I decided to stop for a moment and show him some gratitude for his outstanding property. “God gave your land quite a blessing by the looks of it!” I said to him. “I suppose so! But you should have seen the land when God had it all to himself!” The farmer replied.
Each plot of land along that road was blessed with equal opportunity. Each given nearly the same land and yet only one truly flourished. In life we all are given the same equal opportunity. If we follow

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