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[Valerie Moreno]

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From: "Valerie Moreno" <spiritwind at pmpmail.com>
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Subject: FW: critique group 2, spiritwind at pmpmail.com
Date: 
Tue, 19 Jul 2016 06:07:04 -0500

Little Light
(Miranda-Eve)
VM 7-19-16

Contracters digging in a homeowners garage
make a startling discovery--
lead and bronze container bearing 
the words "Metalic Burial Case".

Through windows in the top,
they saw a tiny girl,
fully intact, untouched by time.

Flowing blonde curls framed
a sweet, peaceful face--
so began the mystery of
a gentle, little child.

Who was she? 
somehow, left behind when the 
Oddfellows cemetery was cleared in the 1900s
to use the land for the living.

she was three,
rose petals and lavendar in her hair.
The pleeted, cotten gown of white she wore
was handmade, lace at the sleeves and 
a cross made with lavendar on her chest.

A family of means wanted her
remembered forever,
why else such careful, costly 
preservation.
The child's identity remains a mystery,
scientist and historian seeking clues from
golden strands of her hair, it is thought she
died in the 1870s.

The homeowners children named her
Miranda-Eve.
A service was held celebrating
her brief life as she was 
placed near the mass oddfellows grave.
She is a reminder that
every life is significant, important.
Rest preciously, little one, 
so loved then, now and forever.
May your story be known someday.
You matter so much to so many.


*Miranda-Eve rests in the San Francisco area in land of the Garden Of
Innocence, a non-profit charity that honors and sponsors burials of
unidentified children. Miranda's casket was placed within a cherrywood
coffin made by the homeowners. Her heart-shaped stone bears her nickname
"Miranda-Eve" with one side blank for engraving her true identity is
discovered. Records from Oddfellows cemetery were lost in a fire during
the
great San Francisco earthquake.
But know everything lost will be recovered when you drift in to the arms
of the undiscovered
 -Ben Giblert, "Me and Magdalena",
Monkees, Good Times!  50th anniversary, 2016