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Balladeer
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0 posted 1999-09-02 12:10 PM


( written by a mother after having seen her young son playing with a neighborhood boy)

"Was that boy black?", I asked my son, who was only three.
"Gee, I don't know." the boy replied. "Next time I'll look and see."

© Copyright 1999 Michael Mack - All Rights Reserved
Lucie
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1 posted 1999-09-02 12:13 PM


I love it.. I love it.. I love it!!!!!
PhaerieChild
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2 posted 1999-09-02 12:15 PM


I remember this one... it was one of the 1st I'd read my first day here on 8/30/99. I liked it then and I like it now

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Words lay dormant in the recesses of the mind til called forth to a labor of love. By WildChild


Seymour Tabin
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3 posted 1999-09-02 07:56 AM


Balladeer,
Funny and makes sense to me. Good one

Starith
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4 posted 1999-09-05 10:28 PM


Short and sweet...but I think it deserves another round through the forum...so back to the top with you.

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We are only truly apperciated after we are no more!


WhtDove
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5 posted 1999-09-05 11:18 PM


Glad you reposted this Balladeer! Strong thought with such few words!
moonmoon
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6 posted 1999-09-06 02:10 AM




Such profound message with such few words...Thank you for reposting it sir..

Errr..Does that mean the little boy was color-blind?? *giggle*

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"No one was ever ruined from without;
The final ruin comes from within.".....Amelia E. Barr



Justbleu
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7 posted 1999-09-06 02:29 AM


Point well made!! Great!!

Thanks!!


Justbleu

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"Never let anyone keep you from your dreams, follow your heart, be true to yourself, and if that special someone does to, go ahead, walk together side by side as one!!

Julie
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8 posted 1999-09-06 03:13 AM


Love it! Me too! Me too! me too!

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Julie
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Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
Marianne Williamson

hoot_owl_rn
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9 posted 1999-09-06 09:45 AM


Excellent..could we all be as free from predijuce and biasis like a small child
Emmy
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10 posted 1999-09-06 12:33 PM


If only everyone saw like that! A lot of power in those two lines. I love it.
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11 posted 1999-09-06 12:35 PM


Point taken, Sir...

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*Elizabeth*

"Dwelt a maid belov'd and cherish'd by high and low,
But with autumn leaf she perish'd, long time ago..."


redwriter1
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12 posted 1999-09-07 01:35 PM


Small thoughts expand your horizons.. (smile)

Nice lines.

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