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My Wife Cheated, Ran Off With Another Man, And Never Came Back. Where Was God?

Jon married a girl I grew up with. In the middle of the night two years later, Jon called me because he had just found emails that made it clear to him that his wife was cheating on him. Soon after, she left and never came back.

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