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He bought her very first baby carriage. Twenty-one years later, he married her in the Blue Room of the White House. Frances Folsom was born in Buffalo, New York, in 1864. Her father, Oscar Folsom, was a lawyer, and his law partner and close friend was a bachelor named Grover Cleveland. Cleveland was a regular visitor in the house. Little Frances called him "Uncle Cleve." When she was 11, her father was killed in a carriage accident. Cleveland took charge of his estate, paid off the family's debts and looked after Frances and her mother. He became, in effect, the girl's guardian. Cleveland went on to become mayor of Buffalo, governor of New York and then President of the United States. In August 1885, a few weeks after Frances turned 21, he proposed to her by letter. When rumors of an engagement spread, many people assumed the President was courting her mother. On June 2, 1886, the 49-year-old President married 21-year-old Frances in the White House, with only 31 guests. She became the youngest First Lady in American history. The country fell in love with her. Her face was on advertisements everywhere, and women copied her hairstyle. The couple had five children. Cleveland died in 1908. Five years later, Frances married again, the first President's widow ever to do so.

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John 1:5 “…the Light shines on in the darkness, for the darkness has never overpowered it…”. Only ‘God things’ can be associated with the words ‘always’ and ‘never’… it’s here we understand the true nature of God, His unlimited omnipotence revealed in the Light. This Light pierced the darkness, overcame it, and the darkness will never be able to appropriate it. John testifies to what he’s witnessed and he wants to share it with the world. “There it was-the true Light, coming into the world, the genuine, perfect, steadfast Light that illumines every person. He came into the world, and though the world was made through Him, the world did not recognize Him, did not know Him”. There are different kinds of darkness, but they all come from the same place. A darkness that overcomes a person who has never taken hold of the Light. A darkness where Pride, Fear, Anger or Shame guards the door to the heart in an attempt to oppose the Light, it’s Love and Humility and Goodness and Hope. Deceit, and Lies hide in the shadows of darkness, unreceptive to the Light. In the Light, the Truth is revealed and the darkness has to flee, it’s overcome, overpowered, and rendered harmless. Do we have to search for this Light? Or is it everywhere, that we just need to recognize it for what it is? Paul wrote letters of Light from the darkness of a prison cell, Light and darkness are not merely around us, it’s what’s in us that changes things. John tells us that He came for His own and they didn’t recognize Him, they missed it…they chose to betray Him, they chose to close their eyes to Who He was…because they loved the darkness… more. The Light is here…full of Truth and Power. It wasn’t until Jesus ascended into heaven that the Light could live in the hearts of men through belief, confession, and repentance…through surrender…through Jesus. A Guard against the darkness is placed over our hearts. We do well to ask God how we’ve offended Him. How we’ve allowed a spirit of darkness to corrupt

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About 1.2 million veterans live in households that receive food assistance through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), according to recent estimates. Thousands of veterans in every state — who may be between jobs, working in low-paying jobs, or have disabilities — use SNAP to supplement their low income to afford food for themselves and their families. Research shows that veterans were over 7 percent more likely than non-veterans to experience food insecurity in 2015-2019, after controlling for a range of socioeconomic and demographic characteristics. Nearly 1.6 million veterans are enrolled in Medicaid, and many others purchased Affordable Care Act (ACA) marketplace coverage with premium tax credits. (Some veterans are not eligible for or aware of VA services or do not live near a VA facility.) Medicaid both provides coverage to veterans who would otherwise be uninsured, and supplements Medicare, private, veterans’, or military coverage, including by limiting out-of-pocket costs. Veterans, over 30 percent of whom have a service-connected disability, can have complex health care needs, such as chronic health conditions, post-traumatic stress disorder, and traumatic brain injuries. Another roughly 4 million family members of veterans are also enrolled in Medicaid or in the Children’s Health Insurance Program. In addition to veterans and their families who receive Medicaid and SNAP, tens of thousands of families and households with active-duty service members also receive this assistance.