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Maria’s Love Foundation is an organization based in Brooklyn, NY and was founded by Antri Orfanos in memory of her mother, Maria Papanikolaou. Maria was a sweet and caring wife and mother who had to fight a common battle: CANCER. After five years of numerous surgeries and chemo-therapies, melanoma took her life, but her memories still live with us.
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2nd Annual Gala
Astoria Characters: The Devoted Daughter
Maria, who had been diagnosed with melanoma, didn’t make it long enough to see Antri turn 17.
“She died a month before my birthday,” Antri says.
That was a decade ago, and a lot of things have changed since then.
Antri, who has big brown eyes that have cried big tears and wavy brown hair that swirls to the middle of her back…
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