Handmade doll: Tootie Fruitie
Part of the Stitches collection.ST-TXZ-UN-0288
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Tootie Fruitie

UnknownTexas, USA

The story

“Precious” is what I realize “I am.” There is nothing more fulfilling than inner peace. Form my spiritual health I have learned to love myself first. This virus teaches me to be patient, giving, honest and respectful to other people and myself. My mission in life now is to live long and joyous. If I must live this way “I will live it positively.”

About this doll
Represents
HIV/AIDS
Diagnosis
2000

Behind the collection

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These dolls, created by women with HIV/AIDS, show that the disease is one with multiple layers that each woman must peel away in order to live a positive life.

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