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(RNS) Scared child. Proud parent. Beloved icon. Soul sister. In her startlingly beautiful new book, "Full of Grace: Encountering Mary in Faith, Art and Life," author Judith Dupre uses each of these images to describe the Virgin Mary. It's that last one -- "soul sister" -...