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Tender Stories

"Love people where they are."  There are a lot of people who have a lot of love in their lives.  And a lot who do not.  I want to honor them and all the pieces of them.  I want their eyes to see what I see...character, strength and battles being won.

 What I have learned about myself is

that it is the ones with the least that I want to love the most.

A local vendor selling funeral flowers in Kolkata, India

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Jennie Doane, 
arguably the world's most famous quilter, donated her quilt to the Giving Machines 

Miss Teen Missouri and her pet pig, Bella

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The funeral of a young Navel cadet who commited suicide

Urban core prom--"I never knew I was beautiful"

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"I just got of prison yesterday. 
I am looking for a bus ticket home to Texas."

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She cried when she got her free backpack

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Graveyard Point, Alaska
ABBA goes
to a 
funeral
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Humanitarian service at a girls elementary school in rural India
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These young men drove across two states to help clean out Hurricane Harvey house damage
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Turkish Food Festival

Antique stained glass created by Tiffany himself

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Healing House
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Independence Missouri

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