Storm Journey/Circulation
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Circulation

He met her at a hotel he had no business being at. She wore a headband with a bow. They played Call of Duty: Zombies for hours. Then came the phone call: 'I'm pregnant.' Emmanuel was twenty years old. He made a promise he was not fully prepared to keep — and the circulation of love, responsibility, immaturity, and fear began pulling his future toward a common center.

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He met her at a hotel he had no business being at. She wore a headband with a bow. They played Call of Duty: Zombies for hours. Then came the phone call: 'I'm pregnant.' Emmanuel was twenty years old. He made a promise he was not fully prepared to keep — and the circulation of love, responsibility, immaturity, and fear began pulling his future toward a common center.

"Good intentions and maturity are not the same thing."

Circulation, God With Us