Tag: Boy
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Am I A Fireman Yet?
In Phoenix, Arizona, a 26-year-old mother stared lovingly at her son. He was six years old but dying, of terminal leukemia. Although her heart was filled with sadness, she was determined to…
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Remember Those Who Serve Us
In the days when an ice cream sundae cost much less, a 10-year-old boy entered a Hotel Coffee Shop and sat uneasily at a table. A waitress arrived and put a glass of water in front of him. Nervously, he asked, “How much is…
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Three Red Marbles
During the waning years of the Great Depression of the 1930’s, in a small southeastern Kansas community, I used to stop by Mr Miller’s roadside stand for farm-fresh produce as the…
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You Can’t Please Everyone
An old fable, that has been passed down for generations, tells about an elderly man who was travelling with a boy and a donkey. s they walked through a village, the man was leading the donkey and the boy was walking behind. The village-folk said the..
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The Fence And A Few Holes
There was a little boy with a bad temper. His father gave him a bag of nails and told him, every time he lost his temper, to hammer a nail into the garden fence. The first day the…