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Read original article on AOL News by Ben Muessig.
This week has been a pretty depressing one -- with death on the tips of many people's tongues after the Arizona shooting.
This made finding happy news tough -- and all the more necessary -- to know that even with sad news, there is still hope in the world.
And even with death, there is still life. Sometimes, we focus so much on the tragedies, of those who have died, that we forget to notice the lives that begin.
On any given day in the United States, about 10,657 babies are born (according to the US Census). According to the World Fact Book, the death rate is 8 to every 1,000 people and the birth rate is 20 to every 1,000 people. That means, no matter how much death we hear about, there is still more life in this world than there is death.
And here is one story about little Rosa, who came in to the world early yesterday morning.
Get this -- she was born on 1/11/11 at 1:11 a.m. Flora was born at that exact time, a birthday always easy to remember.
But Flora's mother was more focused on having her baby girl in her arms than what the time was on the clock.
Every person in this world has a story to tell, and every birth is a blessing, whether born at 1/11/11 at 1:11 a.m. or born on Friday the 13th like I was.
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