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It was a hot August day in Paris. Mother and I were aboard the Seine river cruise. As usual whenever we passed under a bridge, hands down in the cruise and up on the bridge waved to each other. Someone up there threw something down, and many on the boat tried to catch it, but it fell exactly in the lap of my mother. It was a pendant attached to a whitish string. Virgin Mary was on one side and the cross on the other.
Eight years later, my sisters found it with Mama's jewelry after she passed away. They didn't know where it came from and were surprised to find it (given the different religious belief) I was surprised too that she maintained it all these years. A matter of superstition maybe.
Mama passed away this month 9 years ago.
A gentle devotion is the focus of the medal that was dropped in your mother's lap.
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