Thursday, October 28, 2010

Just in case your heart needs to be warmed today

Here's a story by Lane DeGregory, published in 2002 in the St. Petersburg Times

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  1. you're not supposed to make people cry at work!!!
    great story.

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  2. Great story -- I actually wrote for the same college newspaper as Lane DeGregory, although she had graduated before I started college.

    I'm pretty sure she won a Pulitzer Prize, too (for a story quite a bit darker than Bobo).

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  3. 5 days of intense healings, 26 hours of travel, home safe, and jet-lagged. I needed to cry. Thank you.

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  4. I'm with KO---

    But I wouldn't have wanted to miss it---everyone should have a Bobo and a Mommy who's willing to search for him.

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  5. I'm totally crying, too! Thanks for the amazing story :)

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  6. Great story. An example of what our Moms have had to go through. Traveling all over town at Christmas to find the toys kids desperately want, saying nothing a month later when they find the toy at the back of a closet. Moms give us moments, giving all they have, so much left unthanked or requited.

    Great! Now I have to call my MOM! :-)

    Best of days,

    DougM

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  7. You think crying at work is bad, I'm crying IN MY PSYCH CLASS.

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  8. What a great story. What is it about kids and toys that gets to people? I got choked up during The Pursuit of Happyness when the little boy dropped his action figure and they couldn't go back for it.

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  9. This story makes my heart go squish.

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