Since 1992, a network of volunteers from across the country has taken up Handsel's mission, providing nearly 1, 000 lap robes a year.
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Handsel traces her desire to help the terminally ill to her childhood in North Carolina, where she spent seven years in a boarding school outside of Asheville.
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Local folklore claims that the outbreak was believed to be associated with the witchcraft of the four Handsel sisters, who were summarily murdered and buried in Grovely Wood.
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Nine hours after beginning, Handsel is finished, a beautiful lap robe complete, ready to be sent off to a terminally ill patient or a person living with AIDS.
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Chuck Rolen, 43, a chaplain with SunAlliance Hospice in Dunwoody ( Ga . ), calls Handsel's work a " true random act of kindness ."
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Handsel took his daughter, Kaelyn Elizabeth Morgan, on Tuesday while she was being driven to kindergarten in San Juan Cosala, about 25 miles ( 40 kilometers ) south of Guadalajara, Mexico.
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The two men had confessed to helping a friend, Christopher B . Handsel, seize his daughter, Kaelyn Elizabeth Morgan, from her stepfather's car on Jan . 14 near here.
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If the handsel was a physical object rather than money, tradition said that the object could not be sharp, or it would " cut " the relationship between the giver and the recipient.
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Teresa Hammett, an epidemiologist with the Division of HIV / AIDS Prevention at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, became a volunteer with Handsel to put a face to the numbers she compiled on the AIDS epidemic.
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Christopher B . Handsel, of Fort Collins, Colorado, allegedly kidnapped his daughter, Kaelyn Elizabeth Morgan, on Tuesday while she was being driven to school in San Juan Cosala, about 25 miles ( 40 kilometers ) south of here.
