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I met Nicole Martin at an event where she was talking about her book titled Gracie's Ticket. She wrote the book to help children facing a situation that she lived for 19 years as a child sexually abused. She struggled to find a way to keep going after the painful trial that came back as a hung jury, and let her abuser walk away without a day in jail. She fought to escape reality through drugs and alcohol, suicide attempts only to discover in her darkest hour of desperation, a light of hope. God snatched her out of the flames and darkness that surrounded her, and showed her how to find life in Him. Through the love and the new gift of life in Christ, she found joy and peace for the first time in life. She met her husband Ben, and they

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