The Loving Picture that will never leave your memory

This undescribable example of human love has been circulating the
internet. I don't know it's original source but I do know that it will
stay with you forever. Below is how it was sent to me.

Love, Gary

Read this before seeing the photo below. 

A picture began circulating in November. It should be "The Picture
of the Year," or perhaps, "Picture of the Decade." It won't be.

In fact, unless you obtained a  copy of the US paper which published
it, you probably would never have seen it. The picture is that of a
21-week-old unborn baby named Samuel Alexander Armas, who is being
operated on by a surgeon named Joseph Bruner.

The baby was diagnosed with spina bifida and would not survive if
removed from his mother's womb. Little Samuel's mother, Julie Armas, is
an obstetrics nurse in Atlanta   She knew of Dr. Bruner's remarkable
surgical procedure. Practicing at Vanderbilt University Medical Center
in  Nashville, he performs these special operations while the baby is
still in the womb.

During the procedure, the doctor removes the uterus via C-section
and makes  a small incision to operate on the baby.  As Dr. Bruner
completed the surgery on Samuel, the little guy reached his tiny, but
fully developed hand through the incision and firmly grasped the
surgeon's finger. Dr. Bruner was reported as saying that when his
finger was grasped, it was the most emotional moment of his life, and
that for an instant during the procedure he was just frozen, totally
immobile. The photograph captures this amazing event with perfect
clarity.  The editors titled the picture, "Hand of Hope."

The text  explaining the picture begins, "The tiny hand of
21-week-old fetus Samuel Alexander Armas emerges from the mother's
uterus to grasp the finger of Dr. Joseph Bruner as if thanking the
doctor for the gift of life."

Little Samuel's mother said they "wept for days" when they saw the
picture. She said, "The photo reminds us pregnancy isn't about
disability or an illness, it's about a little person."

Samuel was born in perfect health, the operation 100 percent successful.