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Word: mpho (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Merriweathers have a three-year-old adopted daughter named Mpho, which means "gift." Her mother came to the hospital desperately ill and about to deliver a baby. Merriweather saved both. Then, he explains, "the grateful mother could think of no better gift for us than the baby. It may seem unconventional in Western terms, but believe me, this is a long way from the West. So we accepted Mpho as a gift from God, and that is what she has been to us ever since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Missionary | 12/27/1982 | See Source »

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