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A Box Full of Kisses

The story goes that some time ago, a man punished his 3-year-old daughter for wasting a roll of gold wrapping paper. Money was tight and he became infuriated when the child tried to decorate a box to put under the Christmas tree. Nevertheless, the little girl brought the gift to her father the next morning [...]

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The Very Special Christmas Gift

It is the day before Christmas nineteen forty-nine. A young mother had just discovered that her five-year-old daughter had wasted an entire roll of rather expensive gold wrapping paper. Her daughter had crudely wrapped the paper around a small cardboard box that she had placed behind the family’s modest little Christmas tree. Money was very [...]

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A gift from God

As I held my precious boy in my arms last night to rock him to sleep, I could feel the unconditional love and trust my little angel has for me. He had his arms wrapped around me and he kissed me on the cheek, at that very moment I sensed a warm peaceful spirit. I [...]

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Father’s Day in Heaven

I hope they celebrate Father’s Day in Heaven Cause if there ever was a, “special Daddy”, it was you!   I remember not being able to wait for you to come home from work. Sometimes you were gone before I woke up and returned after I was already asleep in my bed.   I remember crawling out [...]

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Dear Dad

Dear Dad, I couldn’t send you this letter, even if I wanted to. You are out of reach now. There’s always been things I wanted to tell you. I never knew how to say them then. I still don’t know how to say them now. I lived in your house for sixteen years. You provided [...]

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Finally Sisters

It had been two weeks since Rhonda said goodbye to her sister Sonya and her eightteen month old son, Brandon as they headed out for New York. The fact that she misses Sonya is such a foriegn notion to her. Rhonda actually cried as Sonya pulled away. Not in front of Sonya, mind you, but [...]

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Mother of Many

I am a Mother, the kids I have are girls from all over the world, each with their own story to tell, each with their own scars, I will soon be adopting my twelfth daughter, a little girl from India, maimed in a bombing not to long ago. Most of my girls are disfigured or [...]

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