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Imran Khan in Bhubaneswar
Unlike last year, Gladys Staines and her daughter Esther Joy Staines have chosen to celebrate this year's Christmas with inmates of a leprosy home in Baripada in Orissa.
Last year they had celebrated Christmas in Australia.
Gladys Staines said that they are celebrating Christmas with inmates of a leprosy home to overcome painful memories of the fateful night nearly three years ago when her husband, Australian missionary Graham Staines and two minor sons, were bunt to death at Manoharpur village in Keonjhar district.
"Memsahib (Glady Staines) and her daughter are taking keen interest this time to celebrate Christmas in Baripada," said a housekeeper-cum-driver of the Staines family.
The Staines' house located inside an old Baptist church in Baripada, where late Graham Staines spent nearly 35 years working for leprosy patients, is all set for Christmas celebration.
Gladys Staines said that she, along with her daughter, would also go to a village church to celebrate Christmas with the villagers.
"We have always celebrated Christmas in a simple way. Earlier Graham would take care of inmates of the leprosy home, now I have to take care of them," she told rediff.com.
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