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Joe Brown, 76, spent the last decades of his life with his wife, Tina Brown. For 15 of those years they sold Precious Moments dolls and collectible figurines in Fort Myers.

They shut the doors of Tina’s Precious Moments at Royal Palm Square in 2006. Shortly afterward, Tina developed a malignant tumor. By the fall of 2008, she moved into hospice care.

“In Hospice House she was praying for people who were sick,” Joe said. “She was selfless.”

One of their former customers turned friend, Joan Marini, wanted to do something special for Tina. She wrote an e-mail to the human resources department for Precious Moments, which is based in Carthage, Mo.

Marini asked them to make a doll to honor Tina since she’d been passionate about Precious Moments and was gravely ill.

“I pray that someone can make this happen,” she wrote.

Craig Schoenhals, general manager of the doll division, answered her prayers the next day.

He remembered meeting Tina at her Fort Myers store and agreed immediately. He recalled her extraordinary store displays and warm personality.

“We rarely do this,” he said. “But she was passionate about this business and we thought it would be nice for her.”

He e-mailed Marini and asked for Tina’s eye and hair color.

On Nov. 11, Megan Kuzick read Schoenhals’ e-mail aloud to her grandmother describing the one-of-a-kind doll being made in her honor.

Tina, 71, died the next day in her husband’s arms.

One week later, the doorbell rang and a UPS delivery man handed Joe a package.

He unwrapped it and found an angel: A beautiful doll with curly blond hair and hazel eyes and feathered wings.

He wept at the sight of it.

“It looked just like her,” he said.

He called Marini and she and her husband Richard Marini rushed over to see the doll. It had been designed by Naples doll designer Linda Rick.

Joan Marini was overwhelmed.

“Little ol’ me in North Fort Myers writes an e-mail and damned if it didn’t materialize,” she said. “I like to think she knows the doll is here.”

Tina, the angel doll, sits in Joe’s foyer to greet everyone who enters his home.

“It blows my mind that a company of this magnitude would do that out of the goodness of their heart,” Joe said.

“It’s a blessing – truly,” he said. “I will cherish this doll forever.”

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