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Paulette her favorite doll beams with radiance after creative restoration... Such was gift from the father she longed to embrace and the only possession she clung to from brokenness. Before leaving the orphanage she handed Paulette to the social worker--- “Please give her to a girl who needs someone to hug. She will be alright… I thank God* for my new family.” Paulette would like to cry… she was the very lone witness of what Paula’s biological Mom assured her: “I’ll soon visit … and then bring you and your doll with me to our home.”
*Romans 7:25 I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord… December 2, 2021 Edited on March 18, 2023

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Date: 12/3/2021 8:15:00 AM
Crafted with care and love as Jesus would; both Testaments punish folk who neglect orphans, widows, the weak, the unjustly treated, "foreigners or aliens." Hebrews 13: 1 suggests some "strangers" may be angels in disguise, Paulette is an angel, thanks B!
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Date: 12/2/2021 9:08:00 AM
Beata, Oh my, my. The hug felt across this world so in need. Astounding poem from one whose eyes are wide open. -Richard
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