Madge gives goodwill and gets Mercy
We await the tug-of-love girl's memoirs, says Julia Molony
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By Julia Molony
Sunday Dec 27 2009
THIS was a busy year for Our Lady of London and Los Angeles. The world's most famous mother figure was out there, spreading the warmth of her heavenly family to all the unfortunate children of the world. Or at the very least to one in particular. Yes, 2009 was the year that Madonna met Mercy in Malawi. She came, she saw, she adopted. And in true Holy-Mother-of-God style, she measured out the breath of her mission in paparazzi and high-court appeals, dispensing her love (and her antiseptic hand gel) to the people of Malawi from the back of her chauffeur-driven car.
Time will tell how Mercy herself comes to view the ruckus that surrounded her entry onto the hallowed carpets of one of the world's most blessed (and documented) households in the world. What she'll have to say about the legal showdown between her absent biological father and the waxen-faced lady in the sunglasses whom she now calls Mom will be reserved, no doubt, for conversations with her therapist.
That is until the appropriate date for publication of her first autobiography arrives -- perhaps, on the occasion of her 10th birthday party, at which point she'll no doubt be ready to share the miracle of her embrace of the Kabbalah faith and the secrets of the body-toning phenomenon that is Tracey Anderson. ("In Malawi," she might remember nostalgically, "I was basically pretty fat. Thank God Mom got Tracey and her macrobiotic chef on the case.") Oh, and what she really thinks of Gwyneth's cooking.
- Julia Molony
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