It all started with a dream, and I feel grateful to have witnessed lives transformed around the world.

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As a woman who believes that many people are sadly either anaesthetised or misinformed about the true nature of abortion, I feel grateful to be living, for the time-being anyway, in a country that does not allow abortion on demand.

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"I feel really grateful to the people who encouraged me and helped me develop, " she said.

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But I feel so grateful for the turn of the leaves, somehow.

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"Right now ... right now I feel really grateful, " she continues.

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I'm grateful for what the doctors did and they certainly saved my life, but sometimes I feel as if I'm stuck in limbo.

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And yet I do feel lucky -- lucky to be alive and grateful to be in the midst of a season of fewer struggles.

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Ironically, he is so sincerely grateful that despite the fact that I have always paid him promptly and well, I still feel profoundly in his debt.

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