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I agree.ANGELITA*S BREAD Here is the story about and the recipe for a most unusual bread?╟÷one of real old-fashioned, homemade quality. A bread to which at least one man attributes life-saving properties. The recipe comes from Germany and is more than 100 years old. It is the property of the Sisters of St. Dominic, Rose de Lima Hospital, Henderson, Nevada, and is reproduced here?╟÷for the first time any place?╟÷by special permission. Our story concerns A1 Freeman, who helps Jack Sntratter run the Sands hotel in Las Vegas. A1 was literally starving. He was unable to retain a bite of food in the Rose de Lima Hospital, where he was in an oxygen tent for a dust infection in his lungs. Then a nun fed him a piece of hot buttered bread. Freeman lived on bread for five days, saying all the while with the amotion of a man freed from great hunger, MThis is truly angel bread." And that's the start, but far from the finish, of the story of Angelita's Bread. Freemanvowed, after his release, that he would somehow repay the Dominican nuns for, as he puts it, saving his life. When he got home, he missed the bread so much that he often went back to the hospital to get a loaf. The nuns couldn?╟╓t sell the bread, but Al, like so many another who had partaken of this unusual bread, left a generous donation. The nun who baked the bread?╟÷and in whose family the-recipe had been for many years?╟÷was named, either by coincidence or the hand of providence, Angelita. "An angel in the kitchen, both by name and occupation," said Freeman to Sister Angelita*s embarrassment.