Friends are angels that lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly.

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  Lorraine Mitchell

  Use of the above quote has surfaced on the internet:
  
  On Monday morning, October 23, 2000. I received an email from a friend.
  
  It was those adorable baby pictures by the photographer - Anne Geddes.
  
  And my twins were still very young and I had needed and had been greatly supported in every way by my friends and my family.
  
  I was extremely grateful and thankful that morning... so in honor of my love for my special friends, I wrote:
  
  "I Believe Friends are Quiet Angels who lift us to our Feet when our Wings have Trouble Remembering how to Fly."
  
  And signed the quote Lorraine K Mitchell with the date and sent the emails to the three of them.
  
  Within the next few days every email I received from any and everyone had my quote attached to it, which shocked me to the utmost.
  
  A webmaster had captured God's Quote and had begun attaching it to everything he sent out. He refused to reply to me concerning its use.
  
  I called an attorney and she said the internet laws were vague. (This was 2000)
  
  One of the women I had honored,
  said that I should be honored that so many found my words so beautiful and encouraging. Yet, I wept and grieved.
  
  (I recognized the strength and value of the words God had given me that morning. And I felt as though I had lost my child to the world. My heart weeps for my quote daily because the world refers to me as unknown and Anonymous, But I am here. I am alive. And I desire for my words to know their mother. I am an artist.)
  
  But, the very next year was nine-eleven... and God's quote took on a new life of its own. It was again posted everywhere, even in a half page article in a major publication
  accompanying a beautiful picture of a fireman with a nine-eleven victim. The image of an Angel stood just above them. The photographer received credit, but I was listed as anonymous.
  
  No one knows the magnitude of how I felt knowing the comfort God's Quote gave to America after having lost so much because of nine-eleven.
  
  I've been told over the years that I have the gift of the written word, although I couldn't believe it. I shied away from the compliments.
  
  On the other hand my child, my quote has confirmed the power of my gift over and over for the last 16 years.
  
  However, My child, my quote has been infringed upon and is being sold all over the internet in various forms, plagues, wall hangings, and on ugly t-shirts. Associations, fund raisers, school teachers, bloggers have used the quote for their website titles, and two people (so far) have claimed the quote as their own.
  
  God's quote is listed as the number one used quote on one website and as number 15 on another as the most requested and used.
  
  And God's quote has been used in the introductions and acknowledgements of over 26 books/text written since 2002.
  
  Although, there is an author that I found that readily admitted the quote was forwarded to him in an email by his friend and he gave praise to the strength of God's quote by the anonymous author. But, at least he acknowl more »

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