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The Hiding Place: Corrie And Betsie Ten Boom
Sister’s Kinship
Corrie and Betsie Ten Boom are two of the main characters of the book The Hiding Place, which talks about a courageous family that helped the Jews to escape during the nazi holocaust in the middle of the second world war. While Corrie and Betsie are both middle-aged, Christian sisters, they are different in many ways such as sense of fashion and abilities.
Betsie was a courageous, kind, faithful, Christian woman. She had suffered from anemia since she was a baby, and because of that she could not bear children, so she chose to not get married. Although Betsie was the oldest child, and seven years older than Corrie, she had a sense of fashion, she was more feminine, graceful and elegant than Corrie. Betsie was excellent with

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