Before Sally went to summer...
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Before Sally went to summer camp her mother gave her a list. On the list were things that any mother would not want her teenage daughter to do while away from parental regard. Sally looked at the list -- no smoking, no swearing, no cheating or lying, no sassing the adult counselors, no boys, no overindulgence in chocolate. The list went on. There were lots of smiling faces drawn on the page and some good humor thrown in as an attempt to temper the negative tone. Sally wrote back to her mother a list of her own. It enumerated all of the things she loved about her parents and her home. The final sentence said, "Dear Mom, I have discarded your well-intentioned written list in the wastebasket. Because I love you so much, it is written in my heart where it really should be." Love, Sally
-- Fairlie
-- Fairlie
