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A story I first published 5 years ago now: I was standing halfway back in the room, resetting my camera, when a mom approached me. I could see her eyes bright with tears, so I moved closer to her so I could hear her.
“Are you with the band?” she asked.
“Kind of, I answered, a little hesitant. “I know them, a little bit.
“They saved my daughter’s life,” she said.
I dropped my camera and gave her my full attention. “I’m so glad,” I told her.
She started to tell me, through tears, that her daughter had been planning to attempt suicide when she came across Skillet’s music. The songs met her where she was, gave her hope, lifted her out of the dark. “ just want them to know that,” the mom told me. “Could you tell them, if you ever get a chance?”
I promised her I would. I told her it mattered. asked her daughter’s name so I could hold it with me, carry the story. She pointed her
out to me, dancing and singing on the front row in a white dress.
That sto...
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