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Founded in 1983, The JYL strives to enhance the quality of life amongst all segments of the community and to eliminate exclusion by promoting inclusion in our wide variety of programs and services for children, adolescents and adults.
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A woman’s influence is different from a man’s. A man needs to conquer, to vanquish an opponent. Therefore, his victory is often superficial—he may get the other guy to nod his head, but not to surrender his heart.
A woman is able to reach inside a man, so he may not even recognize her influence. He feels as though this was his idea all along. Her conquest is through nurture.
From where does this talent come? Paradoxically, from the woman’s union with a man. In that union, she discovers what it is to be a woman, and how a woman conquers with love.
So too, from the...






