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May 21, 2013
Bernie and Marvel Mayotte with one of their foster children, Ann Arbor, 2013

Bernie and Marvel Mayotte

Fostering love in their golden years

by Shelley Daily

posted 5/20/2013

A toddler is on the loose in Bernie and Marvel Mayotte’s family room, weaving in and out among the toys and books that dot the floor, climbing up and down on couches, and pointing around the room. Bernie, age ­seventy-nine, and Marvel, seventy, watch her antics with delight. Licensed foster parents, they took in the ­eighteen-month-old shortly after her birth,

 
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