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      "body": "FRESH MEMORY:\n\nYears ago, I took my son with me to grocery store.  I knew I only had $20.00 I could spend.  As we walked into the store, my son asked me, \"Mom, can I get a pack of gum?\"  The gum pack at the time was only $.25, but I knew I had a long list to purchase.  \"If there is any money left over and I have enough for your pack of gum, yes!\"   I told him.  He agreed to this.\n\nIt was winter, so my son took his jacket and stuffed it on the lower level of the basket.  I cautioned him about\nkeeping his hands away from the wheels.  He seemed comfortable enough that I forgot he was there.   After at least 20 minutes, I arrived at the cashier.  I began putting food items and other necessities on the conveyer belt, getting them ready for the cashier.  \n\n  My son at that moment said, \"Can I have it, Mom?\"  \n \"What?,\" I asked. \n \"The gum!\" he insisted.\n\nOh yes, \"the gum,\" I thought....I took a quick look at all that was on the belt and figured I was probably Over, not Under.\n  \"Remember what I told you; only if I have enough.\" I reminded him.\n  \"You do have enough.\"  he retorted.\n \"Bill, I only have $20.00.\"  I said.\n \"But everything you bought adds up to only $19.69.\" he said with total assurance.\n\nThe cashier and I looked at each other with a smile - wasn't he cute to say that?  Then something amazing happened.  The cashier added it all up, including tax on those things that were taxed by the state.  \n\nShe looked up and said, \"How did your son do that?\"  \nI really wasn't paying attention and asked her, \"What? Do what?\"\n\"He added up everything, including the tax and got the right answer.\" she shockingly explained.\n\"He did?\"  He asked.\n\"Yes! and you do have enough for that pack of gun too.\" She exclaimed with a smile on her face.\n\nWow! I almost had to stop and think about what had happened.  My son is only 4 years old and he is doing difficult Mathematics!  How did this happen?  No one sat down and showed him.  Was he a genius and I never knew it?\n\nNo!  Since he was two years old, we had been giving him pennies.  We gave him a bank and fed him pennies, whenever we had them.  We would count to ten with him and he would drop the pennies into the bank. Clink,\nclink, clink!  By the age of 3, he was running back and forth to his bedroom with pennies.  One, Two, Three, four....twenty one, twenty two, twenty-three, twenty-four....thirty-one, thirty-two....forty-one, forty- two...and on to the hundreds and plus there.  He just saw it as a game and we loved that he was learning something most kids didn't learn until they attended school.  But what we didn't know was that he was also learning other things about numbers....how to add them to each other.\n\nNeedless to say, Bill got his pack of gum and eventually, when he was in 6th grade, began buying bubble gum and started his first small business of selling gum to kids at school.  He made a killing.",
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      "body": "I agree that people should exhibit control over their own life and how they live it which can be quite satisfying, but frankly no god is needed for this, you can do it all by yourself. However, what I was  talking about are tragic things that one cannot control, such as things like a natural disaster, disease, children starving, or being brutally attacked by another, terrible things that happen to good people... god has the power to prevent these things, so why doesn't he? Either he is not able to, or he doesn't actually care, or he doesn't exist. If he does exist, he's an asshole and I would never worship such a being. However, logic tells us the most likely answer is that we just made this stuff up as means to control the masses. Hope you come to know the truth - thinking for yourself is a great life!!",
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      "body": "It was a summer day - I was five.  My two older brothers were playing with their friends down the street.  I finally had the chance to play in the sandbox, in back of our house.  I had never been inside the box before, because my brothers usually had their cars, trucks, plastic cowboys and horses in the muddy sand.  They gave me  a tiny corner for my dolls. That day the sand was warm and dry, so I sat right on top of it, in the middle of the small wooden box, with the sun shining down on me.\n\n\tAs I touched the dry, warm sand and let it run through my fingers, I was surprised at the small crystals and how they sparkled with the sun.   I felt joyful that someone had made these sparkling crystals and put them right here for me to play with. My eyes noticed  how much sand there was and then I saw the edge of the box and how there were   sharp pointed green grass sticking up all around the box. How pretty.  A bird chirped and I  looked for it up in a nearby tree.  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I stood puzzled and said,   “Why not?”\n\n\t   “You go out and play in the sand box now and when you are “older” (that word  again) I'll tell you more.”\n\t    \n             So, I walked outside with a very sad and frustrated feeling in my heart.  I stood on the front lawn thinking and wondering about God and why wasn't I able to thank Him or see  Him? I'm not sure how long I had stood there, but suddenly I found myself in a  large classroom, with desks and students, with a teacher at the front of the room.  I had never been to a classroom, so I wondered why I was there and why was I sitting in he back row? The students were all older than I, maybe in their late teens.  \n\n\t    The teacher had written on the chalk board something about God.  Even  though at my young age of five, I didn't know how to read yet, somehow I knew what it said.  Then the teacher asked, \n\n\t    “Is there anyone here who wants to know more about God?”  I was surprised to see no other hands going up.   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Just go to sleep now.” So I finally fell asleep. \n\n           When I woke up, I was standing back on the front lawn, wondering what had just happened to me.  I ran into the house and into the kitchen, where my mother was still cooking. I shouted, “Mommy, I know what happened to me when I was born.”  I  proceeded to tell her the whole story from birth on.  She stood stunned with her mouth open.  I  never did tell her how I knew or how I had gone backward in time and up to heaven, from where we all originate.\n\n       We need to listen to children more often - many have had experiences we never will.",
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