Word: michalowska
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...then there is Danuta Michalowska, an actress who performed with Wojtyla in an underground drama group, the Rhapsodic Theater, during the Nazi Occupation. After his election as Pope, she sent him a formal message of congratulation, lamenting that they could not stay in touch because of his new eminence. Back came a handwritten note from John Paul, gently chiding her for thinking he would ignore her. Since then she has written the Pope dozens of letters, and every one has been answered...
...intimidating, really," says Michalowska, who is still an actress. "You can't write nonsense to the Pope when you know that, no matter what, he's going to take time out to write back to you. The responses aren't long, and they aren't always handwritten. Sometimes he'll scribble his response on the margin of a speech or some document, and Sister Eufrosina -- a Polish nun who's been with him for years -- is very good at making out what he's written and typing it up." She adds, "I think of him as a man who needs...
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