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Lending a helping hand

Nov 17, 2012

Students from Dallas Christian Academy – an Adventist school in the U.S. state of Texas – help families in need by sorting food at the North Texas Food Bank on November 14 in advance of the Thanksgiving holiday. Thanksgiving is celebrated in the United States on the fourth Thursday of November. [photo courtesy DCA]

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