HURST — Crystal Samano settles into a metal chair, coffee in hand, and slides her sunglasses down her forehead to shield her eyes on what may be the final temperate day of 2019. Across the yard, her sons tumble across the family trampoline, pausing only to shower themselves in fresh fallen leaves. The back door…

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Dave and Linda Lewis are exactly the kind of people you would expect them to be. One owns Rita’s Italian Ice, the other runs the preschool program at First United Methodist Church in Euless. The former is gregarious and excitable; the living embodiment of a sugar rush. The latter speaks in hushed, soothing tones as…

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Can I say something weird? Something you wouldn’t expect me to say? Giving Thanks is hard. It’s easy to say “thank you” in passing or to appreciate good news as it comes, but Giving Thanks is more than that. It’s a complex discipline of intentionally pausing to consider all the things with which we have been blessed.…

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