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                    Illustration:  I actually typed into Google the words “I hate my life!”
1.	I was shocked how many I hate my life websites came up!
2.	Here is the opening page of one website:
  
You’re having a bad day. We want to know about it. 
Maybe your agony exceeds ours. That could be interesting. Because
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 23, 2002
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    HELD HOSTAGE IN THE NEW YEAR
The new year started off rather uniquely for a "nameless" woman in Laingsburg, Michigan. She heard "angry, accented voices" coming from her living room. Fearing her husband was being held hostage by terrorists, she hid in a bathroom closet and whispered to the police
                    
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                    Contributed by Timothy Mills on Sep 18, 2006
                
                
                
                    15 billion years, X 365 days, X 24 hours, X 60 minutes, X 60 seconds = 473,040,000,000,000,000. 473 to the 15th power, but evolution requires 104,000th power for the simplest ammino acid, let alone mammals. There simply has not been enough time for evolution to have
                    
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                    Contributed by Chris Summers on Feb 14, 2007
                
                
                
                    We don’t know , we won’t know till that day when we are before Father and our own life is opened will we have Jesus next to us erasing the sins of our life or will Jesus be on the other side convicting us of our
                    
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                    I purchased this doll a few years back when I visited in Russia.  It’s called a Matryoshka doll (Russian Nesting doll). (taking dolls apart)  If you’re familiar with these dolls, you know that you open up one and there’s another inside … and so on and so on.  
	This continues until you get to the
                    
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                    Contributed by Bill Harper on Jan 23, 2001
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    A woman named Dawn McKnight wrote a letter to the editor of the Birmingham News. She said:
	My 14 year old son and I were recently running an errand and saw a sight that made me sick to my stomach.
	As we were going through a drive-through window at a bank, my son observed that in a pile of trash
                    
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                    Contributed by Mark Hensley on Oct 18, 2000
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    :  French writer Alexis de Tocqueville, after visiting America in 1831, said, "I sought for the greatness of the United States in her commodious harbors, her ample rivers, her fertile fields, and boundless forests--and it was not there. I sought for it in her rich mines, her vast world commerce,
                    
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                    Contributed by Melvin Newland on Feb 19, 2001
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    ILL.  A few years ago, Bill Cosby began his book, "Fatherhood," with these words: "So you’ve decided to have a child.  You’ve decided to give up quiet evenings with good books & lazy weekends with good music, intimate meals during which you finish whole sentences, sweet private times when you’ve
                    
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                    Contributed by Bruce Howell on Apr 24, 2001
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Illus.:  “A Lesson on Magnets”
A teacher had just given her 2nd grade class a lesson on magnets.  Now came the question session.  She asked the class, “My name starts with an M and I pick up
                    
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                    Contributed by James May on Apr 27, 2001
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    In the year 1836, the Republic of Texas was fighting for its life after some very costly battles with the Mexican General Santa Anna.  In the opening days of this campaign to reclaim Texas for Mexico, Santa Anna had to face the Texians, as they were called then, at a lonely mission outpost known as
                    
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                    Contributed by Steve Malone on May 23, 2001
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    THE STORY IS TOLD OF A FATHER OF 5 WHO CAME HOME WITH A TOY, HE SUMMONED HIS CHILDREN AND ASKED WHICH ONE SHOULD BE GIVEN THE PRESENT.  "WHO IS THE MOST OBEDIENT, NEVER TALKS BACK TO MOM AND DOES EVERY THING HE OR SHE IS TOLD TO DO?"  HE
                    
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                    Contributed by Brent Williams on Jun 19, 2001
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    When I Grow Up I Want To Be Like You
As children we all have our heroes
The people we want to be like
The Mickey Mantle’s and the Michael Jordan’s
The person I wanted to be like taught me how to catch a baseball
He taught me how to shoot a free throw
But he also taught me how to do something
                    
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