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At one deadly intersection, a Congregation sits

Pastor Anthony Pelella remembers all of them. The young girl whose airbag deployed, saving her life. The man who was thrown several feet from his car. Pelella raced out of his church on those nights, knelt with them, held their hands and prayed.

Then there is the one he learned about the morning after. Pelella knew him only as Ryan, the young man who installed donated tile flooring at the...

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