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Abie, the somewhat shy and retiring gentleman who lives a bit southwest, sent
this small collection...

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."
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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."
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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 go walking, biking, and swimming with me like you do now."

Carolyn shrugged. "In ten years you'll be too old to do all those things anyway."
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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."
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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?"
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Paul Newman founded the Hole in the Wall Gang Camp for children stricken with AIDS,
cancer and blood diseases. One afternoon, he and his 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.

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

An eight-year-old girl perked up. "How long was he missing?"
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...and ...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
thunder rumbling in the distance.

The little old man looked at the pastor and calmly said, "Well, she's there."
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We'll be friends until I am senile.
Then we'll be NEW friends.
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