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By Victoria Kingston BRONZE
Metairie, Louisiana

“HAPPY SEVENTY-THIRD BIRTHDAY, POP,” I excitingly exclaimed over the dinner table on January 9, 2007. With his big belly, shiny bald head, and eyes as blue as the sea,...
Victoria Kingston BRONZE, Metairie, Louisiana
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By sunspeck BRONZE
North Haven, Connecticut
sunspeck BRONZE, North Haven, Connecticut
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By KayleeW BRONZE
Brier, Washington
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Henry Nguyen BRONZE, Quincy, Massachusetts
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By paigejeary BRONZE
Flower Mound, Texas
paigejeary BRONZE, Flower Mound, Texas
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By Tfortshering BRONZE
70 Drive, New York
Tfortshering BRONZE, 70 Drive, New York
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There are many things in life that will catch your eye, but only a few will catch your heart. Pursue those.
~ Michael Nolan

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By jiggly SILVER
Hartland, Wisconsin
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I believe that there is one story in the world, and only one.... Humans are caught -- in their lives, in their thoughts, in their hungers and ambitions, in their avarice and cruelty, and in their kindness and generosity too—in a net of good and evil... There is no other story. A man, after he has brushed off the dust and chips of his life, will have left only the hard, clean questions: Was it good or was it evil? Have I done well -- or ill?