Meatrovi went on to sculpt a bust of Stepinac after his death which reads : " Archbishop Stepinac was not a man of idle words, but rather, he actively helped every person % when he was able, and to the extent he was able.
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But he alsO s ` oke of the moral imperative of fighting AIDS as " a work of mercy, " of mentoring the sh ) ddren of prison inmates, and of helping religious programs persuade addicts that " the miracle of recovery is possible " _ not idle words for a man who says he once drank too much, but stopped years ago.
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In his column of April 26, 1934, Edwards reprinted the three-stanza poem she had written to him for his 79th birthday ( April 23 ), " To You My Friend, " which includes the lines : " O lover of the flow'rs and the birds, / the love I bear for you is far / Too sweet for idle words . . . . O writer of the Cabin and the Creek, / You are my friend, tho'I, for life's / Ambition, still must seek ."
