"I looked at it and it just struck me," Burrows said. "This time of year. for this to come up - it was just kind of unusual, really: a great experience." Burrows found the sweet scene while buying a container of candy at Fresh Market, where he also works part-time. He advised skeptics take another look at the Christ candy next to a more traditional image of the pair and let their imagination go.
So how sure is he of the resemblance? "I'd say somewhere between 80- to 85-percent," he estimated. "I've showed it to several people even without the postage stamps to compare it to and they couldn't believe the similarity. It's uncanny." So is Burrows worried about criticism from skeptics who don't see baby Jesus and the Virgin Mary the way he does?
"No, not at all, not at all. It's a piece of candy," he said with a grin. "If you see beauty in something, then you should enjoy it - and if you can't, you should move on." The Vietnam vet isn't sure what to do with the Christ candy, but said he'll listen to offers. If Burrows does sell it, he wants to donate the proceeds to veteran's charities and his church.
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To quote Alan Watts: “Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know.”
At least, by the sounds of it, he's not taking it too seriously.
I can sort of see Mary, but the baby is a stretch. And I doubt I would have noticed if it wasn't sitting next to the stamp.
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