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[Mrs. Don-o]

"Something makes her younger than sin, younger than the race from which she sprang, and though a mother by grace, Mother of all grace, our little youngest sister."

I just love that thought..

Although this painting is is not historico-culturally correct, I think this catches the sense of it.

In her book The Reed of God, Caryll Houselander points out that at the Annunciation, God's entire plan of salvation depended on the answer of someone who was basically a child. One innocent from the word "Go." The Protestant Wordsworth called her "our tainted nature's solitary boast."