Mary has signed this poster of quilt titled "Orphans Raising Orphans." The 24 inch by 36 inch poster is ready for framing. Created in the rich colors Mary loves, this quilt is brick reds, tans, dark chocolate brown and bears words from speeches delivered by Mary. Mary's thoughts on this quilt are as follows: I stood, holding the hands of my sons Max and Zachary, looking across a dusty field in Africa. Before us was a camp of orphans-AIDS orphans- some too young, or too sick, to raise their heads. At first I thought I could not bear to look a second time. But when I did, I noticed a most remarkable thing. Everywhere in the field were older orphans caring for littler ones. They would draw and carry water to their younger brothers and sisters, then sit, dipping fingers into the buckets and brushing them over the parched lips of the tiny ones, offering comfort drip-by-drip. They scrounged for food and gave half of far too little to others. They were small orphans spending their lives loving smaller orphans. Orphans raising orphans. In the middle of an unthinkable devastation was love, pure as a perfect lily drifting on a putrid pond.
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