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Huck Finn, a truly perceptive gentleman from the midwest,
sent this collection...

Alas, where has all our innocence gone?

While I sat in the reception area of my doctor's office, a woman
rolled an elderly man in a wheelchair into the room. As she went
to the receptionist's desk, the man sat there, alone and silent.

Just as I was thinking I should make small talk with him, a little boy
slipped off his mother's lap and walked over to the wheelchair.

Placing his hand on the man's, he said, "I know how you feel.
My mom makes me ride in the stroller too…"
~~~~~~~
As I was nursing my baby, my cousin's six-year-old daughter, Krissy,
came into the room. Never having seen anyone breast feed before,
she was intrigued and full of all kinds of questions about what I was
doing.

After mulling over my answers, she remarked, "My mom has some
of those, but I don't think she knows how to use them."
~~~~~~~
Out bicycling one day with my eight-year-old granddaughter, Carolyn,
I got a little wistful.

"In ten years," I said, "you'll want to be with your friends and you won't
want to go walking, biking, and swimming with me like you do now.

Carolyn shrugged. "In ten years you'll be too old to do all of those things
anyway."
~~~~~~~
On the way back from a Cub Scout meeting, my grandson innocently said
to my son, "Dad, I know babies come from mommies' tummies, but how do
they get there in the first place?'

After my son hemmed and hawed awhile, my grandson finally spoke up in
disgust, "You don't have to make up something, Dad. It's okay if you don't
know the answer."
~~~~~~~
Just before I was deployed to Iraq , I sat my eight-year-old son down and
broke the news to him. "I'm going to be away for a long time," I told him.
"I'm going to Iraq."

"Why?' he asked. "Don't you know there's a war going on over there?"
~~~~~~~
Paul Newman founded the Hole in the Wall Gang Camp for children stricken
with cancer, AIDS, and blood diseases. One afternoon, he and is wife,
Joanne Woodward, stopped by to have lunch with the kids.

A counselor at a nearby table, suspecting the young patients wouldn't know
Newman was a famous movie star, explained, "That's the man who made this
camp possible. Maybe you've seen his picture on his salad dressing bottle?'

Blank stares from the young audience.

"Well, you've probably seen his face on his lemonade carton."

An eight-year-old girl perked up: "How long was he missing?"
~~~~~~~
.... and my personal favorite is...

God's Problem Now:

His wife's graveside service was just barely finished, when there
was a massive clap of thunder, followed by a tremendous bolt of
lightning, accompanied by even more loud thunder rumbling in
the distance.

The little, old man looked at the pastor and very calmly said,
"Well… She's there."
~~~~~~~

Be who you are and say what you mean...
because those that matter... don't mind...
and those that mind...don't matter.