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Angels Don't Always Have Wings
By Gwendolyn Mitchell Diaz
! That's a big word for a 'wing' in case you didn't know, Mom!"
I wasn't amused.
"Come on, Mom, smile. It's just a little ceramic angel. It's not like one of us got hurt or something."
He left the room and came back a few minutes later holding a perfectly glued, deceptively unflawed little angel. And all of his fingers were functioning quite normally.
He handed me the angel and reached over to kiss me on the cheek.
"Did you get it yet? A pinion instead of opinion?" he asked sheepishly, trying to make me smile.
He succeeded, and I realized ... I have lots of angels. Some of them are just more rambunctious than others.
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