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The Hiding Place

The Hiding Place

by Corrie Ten Boom

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appears in Christian Biographies, Christian Fiction, and World War 2.

At one time Corrie ten Boom would have laughed at the idea that there would ever be a story to tell. For the first fifty years of her life nothing at all out of the ordinary had ever happened to her. She was an oldmaid watchmaker living contentedly with her spinster sister and their elderly father in the tiny Dutch house over their shop. Their une...

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appears in Christian Biographies, Christian Fiction, and World War 2.

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