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I have been privileged to get to know Pam and Rory Frink over the past seven years. I first met them when they had moved into the original Shepherd’s Gate home at 1639 Portola Avenue in Livermore. That was the home that Alice Ann Cantelow bought to establish the shelter for women and their children […]

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