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VOICES | Issue: "Tick, tick, tick ..." May 07, 2011

See Jane pray

Pin-up girl knew she needed a powerful God | Andrée Seu

Associated Press

In case you are ever tempted to grow weary in praying, I want you to remember Jane Russell's great-great-grandmother Ellen Stevenson in Ireland, whose eight children knew better than to disturb her at prayer. You may know Jane as a World War II pin-up girl (though not one of Andy Dufresne's protectresses in The Shawshank Redemption). That was all I knew until this past winter, when my mother asked God into her life and Jane Russell died.

I got the autobiography, Jane Russell: My Path & Detours, and Mom and I hunkered down for reading dates. Russell's life will drive you crazy if your God is too small, or boxed up, but it is as laced through with God as an 18th-century bodice. Here is the part about life after her teenage abortion:

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May 07, 2011, Vol. 26, No. 9

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