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They are born with a little bit of angelshine about them, and though it wears thin sometimes there is always enough left to lasso your heart.

Alan Beck

You can get him out of your study, but you can’t get him out of your mind. Might as well give up he is your captor, your jailer, your boss and your master a freckled-faced, pint-sized, cat-chasing bundle of noise.
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Boss Captor Cat Chase Freck Give Master might Mind Pint Size Study
Between the innocence of boyhood and the dignity of manhood, we find a delightful creature called a boy.
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Boy Boyhood Call Creature Delightful Dignity Innocent Manhood
A boy is a magical creature you can lock him out of your workshop, but you can’t lock him out of your heart.
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Boy Creature Heart Lock Magical Workshop
I take thee to be my wedded husband,’ really mean, ‘I promise thee to cook three meals a day for 60 years; thee will I clean up after; thee will I talk to even when thou art not listening; thee will I worry about, cry over and take all manner of hurts from.
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Clean Husband Listen Manner Promise Wed Worry Year
What is a husband? He is the one who, with a touch, can bring back the starlight and glow of years long ago. At least he hopes he can – don’t disappoint him.
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Ago Back Bring Glow Husband Long One Starlight Touch Who Year
Little girls are the nicest things that happen to people.
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Girl Happen Little Nice People Thing
A boy is Truth with dirt on its face, Beauty with a cut on its finger, Wisdom with bubble gum in its hair and the Hope of the future with a frog in its pocket.
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Beauty Boy Cut Dirt Finger Frog Protect Truth
Boys are found everywhere – on top of, underneath, inside of, climbing on, swinging from, running around or jumping to.
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Boy Climb Everywhere Found Inside Jump Run Swim Underneath Yop
A boy is truth with dirt on its face, beauty with a cut on its finger, wisdom with bubble gum in its hair and the hope of the future with a frog in its pocket.
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Beauty Boy Buddle Face Frog Gum Pocket Truth Wisdom
Mothers love them, little girls hate them, older sisters and brothers tolerate them, adults ignore them and Heaven protects them.
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Adult Brother Girl Heaven Ignore Little Love Mother Older Protect
A girl is Innocence playing in the mud, Beauty standing on its head, and Motherhood dragging a doll by the foot.
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Beauty Doll Drag Foot Girl Head Innocence Motherhood Mud Paly Stand
They are born with a little bit of angelshine about them, and though it wears thin sometimes there is always enough left to lasso your heart.
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Always Angelshine Born Enough Heart Lasso Little Sometimes
A girl becomes a wife with her eyes wide open. She knows that those sweetest words.
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Become Eye Girl Know Open Sweetest Wide Wife Word
But when you come home at night with only the shattered pieces of your hopes and dreams, he can mend them like new with two magic words Hi, Dad!
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Come Dad Home Magic Night Piece Shatter Word

They are born with a little bit of angelshine about them, and though it wears thin sometimes there is always enough left to lasso your heart.

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They are born with a little bit of angelshine about them, and though it wears thin sometimes there is always enough left to lasso your heart.

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