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f you met Lucy at church, you
                                                                                       would probably think she was
                                                                                     Isomebody's  innocent,  dear
                                                                                     grandmother.  She  is  the  kind  of
                                                                                     woman  who  will  come  and  give
                                                                                     you  a  huge  hug  and  then
                                                                                     introduce herself.                   prostitution.  It  is  common
                                                                                     You would never guess that Lucy      knowledge on the streets that if
                                                                                     is an ex-prostitute. When she was    you  need  anything,  you  can
                                                                                     in  her  teens  and  early  twenties,   come  to  Lucy's  house.  She
                                                                                     drugs and prostitution dominated     doesn't  have a lot, but her home
                                                                                     her life. Through an older Chris-    is always open.
                                                                                     tian  woman  who  reached  out  to   Prostitutes,  pimps,  drug  users,
                                                                                     the  prostitutes,  Lucy  met  Jesus   dealers,  and  anyone  else  who
                                                                                     and  her  life  was  completely  most people avoid - Lucy invites
                                                                                     transformed.                         them in. This is her way of loving
                                                                                     To  this  day,  almost  forty  years   people  who  are  in  desperate
                                                                                     later,  Lucy  lives  near  the  same   need  of  the  hope  and  love  that
                                                                                     streets where she once worked as     she found forty years ago.
                                                                                     a  prostitute  and  consistently  [Crazy  Love,  Francis  Chan,
                                                                                     opens  her  home  to  other  young   Published  by  David  C  Cook,
                                                                                     women  who  are  caught  in  Colorado Springs, USA, 2008].














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