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Georgia

we pulled the antique shoebox out without memory until we opened it tiny bits of fluff in the form of a teeny jacket trimmed with ribbon an embroidered lamb no lock of hair photos of a baby who lived but a day we understood this angel had a short time to be with us we carried her around and sang to her we gave her all the love we could in those thirty-nine hours we prayed over her with intensity but God had another plan for Georgia Loaning her to us for but a short time possibly so we could understand that life is precious

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Date: 11/5/2020 7:38:00 PM
True story? Very sad...
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Caren Krutsinger
Date: 11/6/2020 1:31:00 AM
True story for someone not for me.

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