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Laughter
the Best Medicine
Like
many girls of her age, my daughter, was mesmerized by the movie Titanic.
When
she came home crying after seeing the film for the first time, I
asked her what what part she found so sad. "I'm not
crying about the movie,'' she said in between sobs. "I'm
crying because Leonardo DiCaprio doesn't even know I exist!"
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Our
money-conscious 12 year-old went to the store to have her very first
film developed. She was told the rate for a one-hour service and the
cheaper charge if she collected the pictures in three day's time. "What
if I leave it with you for a month?" she asked.
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My son was apprehensive about a long wait when we visited a
hospital for tests. Looking around, he commented. "Most
waiting rooms have magazines, but this one has novels. Is that a bad
sign?"
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After teaching high school for nearly 20 years, I thought I'd
heard every possible excuse for missing homework until one parent
sent me this note "Please excuse Ajay for not submitting
her Algebra homework. The cat had kittens on it last night."
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The parents of four young children, my husband and I often
find our house looking like a war zone. I am therfore very impressed
when friends who have children maintain a tidy home. We once vistied
friends whose two kids were allowed to play with only one toy at a
time. As we were leaving, I said, "To look at their
house, you'd never know kids even leave there."
"Yes," agreed my husband. "But to
look at our house, you'd never know adults live there!"
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