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[Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>]

I had an epiphany moment today. I was shopping in WalMart for  
groceries and other necessaries like DCon, to keep the mice and rats  
from eating the wiring on my puddle jumper truck so I wouldn't again  
have to pay for two hours of mechanic time to fix all the chewed  
wires. I had thought it was "the computer," which has now become the  
buzz fix; used to be "needs a tuneup."

Anyway, I was looking for something or other  and in my aisle I  
passed a youngish couple probably in their mid-thirties. Dad was a  
big guy, over six feet tall and no doubt over two hundred pounds.  
Their child of about two years old was seated in the shopping cart.  
As I passed them the father addressed his son: "You know, you're  
beginning to really piss me off!"

I was shocked but I bit my tongue and walked on. About ten feet  
further on I decided that if I could have only one wish come true it  
would be that the only people who are gifted with children really,  
really, really want them, cherish them, and do their best to raise  
them to be happy, confident, humans who feel good about themselves.