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Pastor Kennon Vaughan outside of Harvest Church in Germantown Nov. 13, 2024. (Patrick Lantrip/The Daily Memphian)
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Kennon Vaughan has been told that the insurance company’s survivability expert concluded there was a zero percent chance anyone could have survived the plane crash. But he did. Here’s how he makes sense of his story.
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