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The Little Things · Lavender Mind

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  Hey. Welcome to Lavender Mine podcast,
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  a podcast to help anyone remember
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  how to live only in this moment because,
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  you know what? It's the only 1 we
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  have. Hey. Welcome to Lavender Mind. If this
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  is the first time you're here, welcome to
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  the show, If you've been here before welcome
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  back. As always, it helps my should it
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  grow. If awesome people like you, hit that
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  subscribe button or share with a friend or
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  leave a review. Don't know about you, but
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  I have so much anxiety when I look
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  at the big picture of things that I
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  wanna accomplish.
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  It can... It really helps me when
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  I take things and break them apart and
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  look at them in little bitty bite sized
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  pieces.
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  I think that we can all achieve such
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  big things,
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  1 tiny thing at a time. And our
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  life is made up of all the little
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  things. It's the little moments it seem so
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  insignificant at the time
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  and that we almost wanna blow off and
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  not even do. But those are really the
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  things that keep us all glued together.
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  And keep our relationships glued together. Years ago
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  when I was a little girl,
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  I... My mom would... Romeo me in a
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  wheelchair down the halls of Saint. Jude, and
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  I remember looking up and there were these
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  plaques all over the place with in memory
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  of, and it was just like, a sea
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  of plaques within in memory of, and
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  I was new
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  to
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  being at Saint. Jude and
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  those really stressed me out. And
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  I would just hang my head low, and
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  I was pretty
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  not so excited about being there. If I'm
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  being honest. I was... Bummed about not being
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  able to play my Nintendo as an 11
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  year old back home. We had to move
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  and
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  everything was just kind of upside down and
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  I remember that there was
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  this nurse,
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  a sweet, amazing African American man. He had...
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  Braid hair he super cool looking, he would
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  walk the halls
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  of Saint. Jude, and
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  he would always look at me and smile.
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  Even when I wouldn't smile back, because I
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  was pretty grumpy. I just remember he did
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  that over and over and over every day
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  because we were there for months at a
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  time, and his smile really made a difference,
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  and it's amazing what just a smile can
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  do. It can sometimes save a life. I
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  know that that really impacted me
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  and it made a big difference in my
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  life at that time. And so this is
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  just a thought about that to plan a
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  seed and always remember that that little nod
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  or that smile or that hand on somebody's
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  back,
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  Really make such a difference, and the little
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  things really do at,
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  my friend's mom just passed away. And Harold
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  Eu was all about the little things that
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  she had done that it hint had impacted
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  so many. The little things really do add
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  up. Life is really just about the little
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  things. And in our lives, it's all
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  these things that we remember and cherish. It's
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  a homeless person smile when you give them
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  some candy,
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  It's little ones when they grab your hand
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  when they... When you're sad,
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  it's a cat or a dog jumping in
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  your lap after a really long day.
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  It's that last puzzle piece if your kids
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  don't hide it from you. It's someone saying,
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  you know, I'm listening to you in a
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  world.
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  That really makes us often feel unheard.
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  All these things really add up to create
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  our lives and
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  our little decisions and things
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  maybe don't seem so important at the time,
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  but they really do create friendships, foster,
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  happy homes and build businesses.
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  They also create
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  healthy bodies.
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  Those healthy bodies help us
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  to live longer, happier lives.
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  My grandma
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  used to save her change.
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  She had, like, a little bucket, and every
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  time she would get to the grocery store
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  she would just throw that change in a
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  bucket. And over time, it added up to
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  several hundred dollars. I graduated in the nineties.
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  So several hundred dollars was actually a lot.
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  I remember the concept of that. It was
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  such a cool idea to just
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  save your pennies 1 at a time and
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  how much that adds up. This idea of
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  little things adding up,
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  can be spread into so many different areas,
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  it can be in
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  relationships and your health, and your finances
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  but it's just an easy and
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  a great way to take the anxiety out
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  of living. Because again, when you look at
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  the big pick, sure it can be really
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  stressful if you're trying to save up for
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  a home or
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  if you're trying to lose 20 or 30
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  pounds, it just seems like this, task that
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  is una unbelievable and so you don't even
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  start. And so I just want to bring
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  this to your attention that it is possible
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  just I'm sure you know this, but it's
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  always nice to hear
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  how the little things
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  do really add up and not to look
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  at that big picture and let it stand
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  in the way.
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  Of whatever you're trying to achieve. And also
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  just to remember that the little things really
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  make a difference in other people's lives. So
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  send that text and
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  give that smile and do that kind deed
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  because it's really everything.
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  And, you know, when we
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  are buried and we're on to the next
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  dimension, These are the things that really matter.
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  They're the things that are inner inner woven
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  like a quilt into our loved ones, hearts
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  and lives, and it's really what. Is carried
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  on when we're not here anymore. So I
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  have some tips
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  of to you take little things and make
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  them into those big achievable
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  goals that you have. You can apply this
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  to any area of your life. It can
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  be
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  finances. It can be health if you're trying
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  to lose some weight or gain some muscle
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  or whatever you're trying to do to
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  be healthier,
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  and it's just a couple of little tips,
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  some reminders of how to not look at
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  that big picture, but just to start 1
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  tiny little thing at a time.
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  The first thing is just to write it
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  down and schedule it. If you don't put
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  it on your calendar, forget about it. It's
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  not happen because
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  life is just always full of tons of
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  things to do. So if you don't schedule
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  it,
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  That's really the first thing. It it won't
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  happen.
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  The second thing is to set an area
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  for it if you can, like, collect the
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  things that you need for it.
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  And I like to maybe write something down
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  on a sticky,
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  my y underneath my why? Like, why am
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  I even doing this? Like, if it's weight
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  loss, maybe it's because
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  you wanna dance with your
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  kid at their wedding, and you wanna stay
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  healthy enough to do that in the long
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  haul, you wanna have a body that's healthy
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  enough to carry you through.
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  Have grandkids or whatever your needs are,
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  just that why that big
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  underneath why of
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  the reason you want this goal. The next
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  thing is just breaking it down in into
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  small steps and making a reasonable timeline,
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  and not beating yourself up if you don't
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  hit the timeline just right. And then the
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  last thing is just began and began today
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  because
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  you never know. And life is so precious.
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  Why not start that thing that you wanna
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  do,
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  create that goal that you're trying to accomplish.
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  Just go ahead and get started. And so
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  I'll leave with a couple of quotes.
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  Almost everything comes from almost nothing.
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  Henry Frederick,
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  and little drops of water
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  make a mighty ocean, Julia Carney. I hope
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  this helped I hope together we can plant
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  some seeds of resilience, and joy, have an
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  amazing day.