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It was soon after Virginia Cyr`s birth in 1942 in north central Indiana that she began to show signs of cerebral palsy. When her mother abandoned the family, the little girl was placed in an orphanage and later a boarding school and then a nursing home. She died in 1967 at the age of 25.
This is Virginia`s story in Virginia`s words. Here are her tender, amusing, inspiring, amazing "Letters to Mary"-the journal entries she painstakingly tapped out on a typewriter. Here are the thoughts and prayers, the hopes and dreams, she offered to the Blessed Mother.