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maria lopez's avatar

Esther sees that Amy needs help and encourages her to pray. She sets up a prayer closet next to Amy’s room with a table and a footstool.

She even finds a picture of Our Lady in Aunt March’s house.

She thought it was of no great value, but, being appropriate, she borrowed it, well knowing that Madame would never know it, nor care if she did. It was, however, a very valuable copy of one of the famous pictures of the world, and Amy’s beauty-loving eyes were never tired of looking up at the sweet face of the Divine Mother, while her tender thoughts of her own were busy at her heart.

(Can we just take a moment to appreciate Esther’s evangelization savvy here? Gentle, bold, but not a bit pushy. I love it!)

On the table, Amy places her New Testament, a hymnbook, and “a vase always full of the best flowers Laurie brought her”.

“Esther had given her a rosary of black beads with a silver cross, but Amy hung it up and did not use it, feeling doubtful as to its fitness for Protestant prayers.”

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Kristee Ravan's avatar

Haley! I've been following your family forever--since you moved to Texas--and I've always felt you were a kindred spirit of the tribe of Joseph, but now I know you are. You basically described my family's experience with this version of Little Women too. We had the VHS and I even have the trailer that were before it memorized too--The Silkie and Nicolas Nickleby.

And I agree about adult Amy.

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