<div style="font-size:10pt;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;color:black;"><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt;color:black;"><br><br><br>-----Original Message-----<br>From: tuchyner5@aol.com<br>To: group1@bluegrasspals.com <group1@bluegrasspals.com><br>Sent: Sat, Feb 26, 2022 9:10 am<br>Subject: Leonard's comments on Val sub.<br><br></div><div id="yiv5302165732"><div style="font-size:10pt;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;color:black;"><p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;background:white;" class="yiv5302165732MsoNormal"><u><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:sans-serif;color:black;">This is a first from you. </span></u></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;background:white;" class="yiv5302165732MsoNormal"><u><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:sans-serif;color:black;">At <b>least I can’t remember a memoir from you. </b></span></u></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;background:white;" class="yiv5302165732MsoNormal"><b><u><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:sans-serif;color:black;">In it I can see that in your early years you
shared the same<span style=""> </span>love of special musical
artists that you have today. </span></u></b></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;background:white;" class="yiv5302165732MsoNormal"><b><u><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:sans-serif;color:black;">Jo, who I assume was your sister, wasn’t very
nice. </span></u></b></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;background:white;" class="yiv5302165732MsoNormal"><b><u><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:sans-serif;color:black;">You<span style="">
</span>weren’t supposed to speak to Julie because she was a little different. </span></u></b></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;background:white;" class="yiv5302165732MsoNormal"><b><u><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:sans-serif;color:black;">What was Jo like. </span></u></b></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;background:white;" class="yiv5302165732MsoNormal"><b><u><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:sans-serif;color:black;">That episode doesn’t speak well of her. </span></u></b></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;background:white;" class="yiv5302165732MsoNormal"><b><u><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:sans-serif;color:black;">What was your relationship to her?</span></u></b></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;background:white;" class="yiv5302165732MsoNormal"><b><u><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:sans-serif;color:black;">How did she treat your blindness? </span></u></b></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;background:white;" class="yiv5302165732MsoNormal"><b><u><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:sans-serif;color:black;">Your family seened to have an active involvement
in the community. </span></u></b></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;background:white;" class="yiv5302165732MsoNormal"><b><u><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:sans-serif;color:black;">Perhaps through the church</span></u></b></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;background:white;" class="yiv5302165732MsoNormal"><b><u><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:sans-serif;color:black;">. They felt sad enough for one of them to cry
for Julie’s death. </span></u></b></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;background:white;" class="yiv5302165732MsoNormal"><b><u><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:sans-serif;color:black;">Yet they didn’t know how to reach her by ph</span></u></b><u><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:sans-serif;color:black;">one directly</span></u></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;background:white;" class="yiv5302165732MsoNormal"><u><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:sans-serif;color:black;">. <span style=""> </span>A lot
of information was cramed in this short effective memoir.<span style=""> </span></span></u></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;background:white;" class="yiv5302165732MsoNormal"><u><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:sans-serif;color:black;">It was poignant<span style="">
</span>and sad. </span></u></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;background:white;" class="yiv5302165732MsoNormal"><u><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:sans-serif;color:black;">Her death effected you verey much as it would
have today. </span></u></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;background:white;" class="yiv5302165732MsoNormal"><u><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:sans-serif;color:black;">It is true, you never did forget her. </span></u></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;background:white;" class="yiv5302165732MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:sans-serif;color:black;"> </span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;background:white;" class="yiv5302165732MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:sans-serif;color:black;"> </span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;background:white;" class="yiv5302165732MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:sans-serif;color:black;"> </span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;background:white;" class="yiv5302165732MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:sans-serif;color:black;"><br>
Julie, Memoir--p.2 for gr2 critique session, Feb, 2022-</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;background:white;" class="yiv5302165732MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:sans-serif;color:black;"> </span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;background:white;" class="yiv5302165732MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:sans-serif;color:black;">"Do you love a boy, too?"</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;background:white;" class="yiv5302165732MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:sans-serif;color:black;">"Yes. His name is Davy, he's part of The
Monkees."</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;background:white;" class="yiv5302165732MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:sans-serif;color:black;">"I know the song he sings--Valleri. Does he
make you happy, too?"</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;background:white;" class="yiv5302165732MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:sans-serif;color:black;">"Very much, Julie. I like the other Monkees
and have their records, too."</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;background:white;" class="yiv5302165732MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:sans-serif;color:black;">"V-a-a-ll-eri," Julie sang, then
stopped and drew back as Joann appeared</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;background:white;" class="yiv5302165732MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:sans-serif;color:black;">in front of me.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;background:white;" class="yiv5302165732MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:sans-serif;color:black;">"Didn't you hear me calling? Your mom's
looking for you to go home."</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;background:white;" class="yiv5302165732MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:sans-serif;color:black;">Jo didn't glance at Julie as I said goodbye.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;background:white;" class="yiv5302165732MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:sans-serif;color:black;">Why are you talking to her?" Jo whispered
as we walked away. "She's</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;background:white;" class="yiv5302165732MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:sans-serif;color:black;">dippy."</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;background:white;" class="yiv5302165732MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:sans-serif;color:black;">"I don't think so," I stated.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;background:white;" class="yiv5302165732MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:sans-serif;color:black;">"Oh, exc-u-s-e me!"</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;background:white;" class="yiv5302165732MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:sans-serif;color:black;"> </span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;background:white;" class="yiv5302165732MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:sans-serif;color:black;">Time passed and it was several months later I
learned Julie was sick.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;background:white;" class="yiv5302165732MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:sans-serif;color:black;">"Her mother gave her a little birthday
party for turning 13 and she got</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;background:white;" class="yiv5302165732MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:sans-serif;color:black;">the flu."</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;background:white;" class="yiv5302165732MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:sans-serif;color:black;">"Maybe I can call her," I suggested.
Mom said I'd have to other relatives</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;background:white;" class="yiv5302165732MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:sans-serif;color:black;">for the number and I finally connected with
Julie's mom.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;background:white;" class="yiv5302165732MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:sans-serif;color:black;">"She's sleeping, but she'll be so happy you
called. She really loved</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;background:white;" class="yiv5302165732MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:sans-serif;color:black;">talking to you at Vinnie's wedding."</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;background:white;" class="yiv5302165732MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:sans-serif;color:black;">"I loved talking to her," I told her.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;background:white;" class="yiv5302165732MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:sans-serif;color:black;"> </span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;background:white;" class="yiv5302165732MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:sans-serif;color:black;">Entering the house on a Monday after school, I
found several relatives at</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;background:white;" class="yiv5302165732MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:sans-serif;color:black;">the kitchen table with coffee and pastry.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;background:white;" class="yiv5302165732MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:sans-serif;color:black;">"We have to go to a Wake," my Aunt
Loretta said, beginning to cry.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;background:white;" class="yiv5302165732MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:sans-serif;color:black;">My stomach tightened. "Who?"</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;background:white;" class="yiv5302165732MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:sans-serif;color:black;">"Julie died," she sobbed. "It
seemed like a Flu, but it wasn't. Those</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;background:white;" class="yiv5302165732MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:sans-serif;color:black;">children never live long."</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;background:white;" class="yiv5302165732MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:sans-serif;color:black;">Someone asked if I wanted coffee, but all I
could do was shake my head.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;background:white;" class="yiv5302165732MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:sans-serif;color:black;"> </span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;background:white;" class="yiv5302165732MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:sans-serif;color:black;">The Funeral Home was quiet as we made our way to
the room where Julie</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;background:white;" class="yiv5302165732MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:sans-serif;color:black;">lay. A gentle light fell over the pink party
dress and her peaceful face</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;background:white;" class="yiv5302165732MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:sans-serif;color:black;">with her brown hair about her shoulders. A
bouquet of pink and white</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;background:white;" class="yiv5302165732MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:sans-serif;color:black;">flowers was in her small hands. She looked sweet
and kind and I wondered</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;background:white;" class="yiv5302165732MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:sans-serif;color:black;">if</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;background:white;" class="yiv5302165732MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:sans-serif;color:black;">someone had thought to place her wallet with
Bobby Sherman's pictures in</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;background:white;" class="yiv5302165732MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:sans-serif;color:black;">the casket. I stood by her, then knelt on the
kneeler by the casket to say</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;background:white;" class="yiv5302165732MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:sans-serif;color:black;">a prayer, but all I could whisper was
"Goodbye, Julie. I'll never forget</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;background:white;" class="yiv5302165732MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:sans-serif;color:black;">you."</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;background:white;" class="yiv5302165732MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:sans-serif;color:black;"> </span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;background:white;" class="yiv5302165732MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:sans-serif;color:black;">Valerie Moreno</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;background:white;" class="yiv5302165732MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:sans-serif;color:black;">2-11-22</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;background:white;" class="yiv5302165732MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:sans-serif;color:black;">All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish
the light of one candle.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;background:white;" class="yiv5302165732MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:sans-serif;color:black;">-Saint Francis of Assisi</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;background:white;" class="yiv5302165732MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:sans-serif;color:black;">________</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;background:white;" class="yiv5302165732MsoNormal"><span style="color:black;"><a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" ymailto="mailto:spiritwind@pmpmail.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:spiritwind@pmpmail.com"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:sans-serif;color:blue;">spiritwind@pmpmail.com</span></a></span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:sans-serif;color:black;"></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;" class="yiv5302165732MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:sans-serif;"><br>
Julie's Gift</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;" class="yiv5302165732MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;" class="yiv5302165732MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:sans-serif;">As a young adult, I often regarded wedding receptions boring
compared to</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;" class="yiv5302165732MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:sans-serif;">the beautiful ceremony.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;" class="yiv5302165732MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;" class="yiv5302165732MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:sans-serif;">In 1972, Italian weddings were bigger than life with a huge
hall,</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;" class="yiv5302165732MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:sans-serif;">catering, live band and close to 500 guests.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;" class="yiv5302165732MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:sans-serif;">"do I have to go?"</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;" class="yiv5302165732MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:sans-serif;">"of course," mom declared. "It's your cousin!
Besides, we paid for your</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;" class="yiv5302165732MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:sans-serif;">dinner and don't want to waste money."</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;" class="yiv5302165732MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:sans-serif;">"I hate these Receptions," I complained. "All
I do is sit in a corner</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;" class="yiv5302165732MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:sans-serif;">after dinner being ignored while everyone around me
talks."</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;" class="yiv5302165732MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:sans-serif;">"Then, listen to the music."</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;" class="yiv5302165732MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:sans-serif;">"Usually, it stinks! I'm not in to '40's stuff."</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;" class="yiv5302165732MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;" class="yiv5302165732MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:sans-serif;">My parents never acknowledged how excruciating these social
events were</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;" class="yiv5302165732MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:sans-serif;">for me. Few relatives took time to say hello let alone
respond when I</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;" class="yiv5302165732MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:sans-serif;">tried</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;" class="yiv5302165732MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:sans-serif;">to start a conversation. It was times like these when my
partial</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;" class="yiv5302165732MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:sans-serif;">blindness</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;" class="yiv5302165732MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:sans-serif;">felt like a barrier too thick to break.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;" class="yiv5302165732MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;" class="yiv5302165732MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:sans-serif;">The meal was excellent and the band played modern songs by
James Taylor</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;" class="yiv5302165732MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:sans-serif;">and The Jackson Five.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;" class="yiv5302165732MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;" class="yiv5302165732MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:sans-serif;">When the band stopped, I wandered in to a side lounge where
it was cooler</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;" class="yiv5302165732MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:sans-serif;">and quiet. A young girl in a pink party dress sat on an
oversized white</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;" class="yiv5302165732MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:sans-serif;">sofa, her hands clutching a large pocketbook.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;" class="yiv5302165732MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:sans-serif;">"Hi," she said softly. "I'm Julie. I got
lonely in there," her words were</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;" class="yiv5302165732MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:sans-serif;">slow with a thick lisp.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;" class="yiv5302165732MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;" class="yiv5302165732MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:sans-serif;">Julie. Somewhere I'd heard of a little girl in the family,
but never met</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;" class="yiv5302165732MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:sans-serif;">her. She was Mongoloid--whatever that meant. I sat down next
to her. "I</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;" class="yiv5302165732MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:sans-serif;">got</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;" class="yiv5302165732MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:sans-serif;">lonely, too."</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;" class="yiv5302165732MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:sans-serif;">"You're V-Val," she said. "I hear my mom and
dad say you can only see a</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;" class="yiv5302165732MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:sans-serif;">little. Are they right?"</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;" class="yiv5302165732MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:sans-serif;">"Yes," I smiled.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;" class="yiv5302165732MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:sans-serif;">"Do you go to special school like me?"</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;" class="yiv5302165732MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:sans-serif;">"No, regular school."</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;" class="yiv5302165732MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:sans-serif;">Julie opened her huge purse, her long braided pigtails
falling over her</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;" class="yiv5302165732MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:sans-serif;">shoulders.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;" class="yiv5302165732MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:sans-serif;">"I have a secret," Julie whispered. "My mommy
knows--now, I want to tell</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;" class="yiv5302165732MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:sans-serif;">you." She blushed, handing me a wallet. "I love a
boy," she said in a</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;" class="yiv5302165732MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:sans-serif;">rush.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;" class="yiv5302165732MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:sans-serif;">"He's pretty, he sings and his pictures are in
there."</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;" class="yiv5302165732MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:sans-serif;">Opening the wallet, I recognized him immediately.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;" class="yiv5302165732MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:sans-serif;">"Bobby Sherman!"</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;" class="yiv5302165732MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:sans-serif;">Julie bounced excitedly. "Yes! Mommy finds his pictures
for me in</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;" class="yiv5302165732MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:sans-serif;">magazines and I have his records. He sings "Julie, do
you love me! It's</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;" class="yiv5302165732MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:sans-serif;">another Julie, but it still makes me happy hearing it."</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;" class="yiv5302165732MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:sans-serif;">We sang the chorus together and Julie beamed.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;" class="yiv5302165732MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:sans-serif;">I love you, Lord, you are my lamp...who lightens my
darkness.</span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;" class="yiv5302165732MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:sans-serif;">-Psalm 17</span></p>
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