Hi there!
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I'm grandma Neil.
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The program you are about
to see shows a typical day for
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the children in my
neighborhood who visit me at
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grandma's house in
Chehalis Washington.
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These children are not
actors they are just being
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themselves as I let
you peek inside our doors.
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What a joy it is
to see them learn of
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Jesus for the very first time.
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Come on outside now and enjoy
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a little visit
at grandma's house.
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Hi kids! I'm glad you
came downtown to meet us today.
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Isn't this a glorious afternoon?
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This is my granddaughter
Kate and we came down here to
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buy some of the
freshest vegetables around.
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Then we're going home
and fix them for lunch.
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Come on let's
see what they've got.
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Why don't we check here!
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Purple potatoes - should
we cook some of those up?
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Looks like a spaceship.
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I like raspberries.
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I want to get one tiny cucumber.
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Alright let's go
home and cook the stuff.
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Were back in my
kitchen after our shopping day.
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You might notice the
kids aren't with me now.
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And there's a reason for
that, I shooed them outside
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to play with
grandpa for a while.
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Because I want to
try an experiment.
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Do you remember at
the market today when
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we were looking at potatoes?
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We saw some that were kind
of purple on the outside, and
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there were others that
were red, white and I even saw
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some yellow
finish potatoes there.
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Now most of those when
you cut them open are white on
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the inside, but let me
show you the middle of this one.
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Where's my knife
here, this is fascinating.
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Look at the inside of this!
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It's purple, and you know what
the cool thing about this is?
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When you cook it
up it's purple too.
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And you know sometimes people
have a little trouble with
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things that don't
look exactly as you
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think they ought to look.
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Sometimes it's called
prejudice, and other times maybe
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we don't treat other
kids as nicely as we ought to.
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Maybe they don't look quite
like we think they ought to
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look, but today I thought
maybe if I snuck that in on
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them, and they didn't
know what to expect for lunch,
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I would just like to see
what happens when they get a
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purple potato for lunch!
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So you won't tell them will you?
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Don't let on that you know
the secret that they don't.
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So when they come in
we'll find out what they think
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about purple potatoes.
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Right now I'm going to
finish getting the vegetables
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ready that we bought for lunch.
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Oh this all looks
pretty good, don't you think?
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All this good bread
and good vegetables.
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I think the kids out of be
pretty hungry, of course one
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thing they don't know is
about the special for supper.
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But I think it's about
ready now, I didn't tell,
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I hope you didn't either.
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Grandpa, bring the
kids in time for supper.
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Come on in and - this is
going to be fun don't you think?
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Hi guys, you hungry?
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Yeah! yeah! - good find
a place around the table.
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This is for you, alright.
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Okay who wants to say grace?
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Who wants to say the blessing?
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Any volunteers
alright, Kate you can.
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Dear Jesus thank you for
today, thank you that we can
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all be here, thank
you for our food, Amen!
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Well I hope you like all
your nice fresh vegetables.
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But I do have a
surprise for supper.
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I've worked harder on
this dish all day and it's a
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wonderful entrée are you ready.
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Go ahead you can start,
I'll be back in just a minute.
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Oh Look! It's
awful quiet in here.
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Oh would you like some of this?
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What is it?
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It's potatoes - it's some
of the good potatoes we got
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down at the market today.
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Aren't those cute?
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Don't they make your
plate so colorful and lovely?
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I think it's wonderful that
God made all these great colors.
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All the great
colors of food, flowers.
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Okay I what you guys
just to, you don't want it?
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How come?
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Don't want a bite?
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Awh, come on try a bite!
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No! Not even a little bit?
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Oh okay, are they pretty good?
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Okay grandpa taste yours!
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Did you eat them yet Kate?
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When we were at the market.
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Well Grandpa - that's not so bad
- good I'm glad you tried it.
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Come on over there Samantha
don't you want to try them?
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I am surprised you tried them.
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Well you are just not going to.
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You know what, we did cook a
couple other kinds of potatoes.
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Are they good, yeah!
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I think they are really good,
but if you didn't want those
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kind I made some of
those others over here.
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Do you want to see
something else fun guys?
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This is what they look
like when they are just being
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cooked, mmmm yummy right?
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Ha ha what do you think?
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Do you want to see?
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I will bring those over for you.
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I have two admit that
lavender mashed potatoes
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are a little different,
but when they are cooked like
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that they turn
lavender in the middle.
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They're my favorite
color, - yeah mine too.
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but it is unusual to have
food that color, isn't it?
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Could you guys think
of any other purple food?
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Plums - grapes - onions.
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Huh well why we are naming
all these good kinds of food do
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you think you guys might have
a time to jot down my address?
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I'd love for you write
to me, you know I'd love it.
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So if you have got
your paper and pencil ready,
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well here's my address.
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Hey kids grandma Neil
would like to hear from you.
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She loves to get pictures,
drawings and anything else
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you may want to send her.
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She also answers each one
of your letters so get your
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pen ready and
write down her address.
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Everything is quiet again and
it is time for just you and me.
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Time for a heart to heart talk.
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You know sometimes it is
not so easy to get past the way
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something looks, to see
the real goodness inside.
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It could be like eating
blue potatoes, actually they
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looked kind of
purple didn't they?
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Do you ever feel
like blue potato?
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Do you think that people
turn up their noses at you
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because they can
see past you're outside?
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Oh honey I feel
that way too sometimes.
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I know that especially when
we are young being different
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can make you
wonder if you are lovable.
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What makes a
person lovable anyway?
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Do you ever wonder why
some kids are part of the in
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crowd and they seem to
have trillions of friends,
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and others only have a few?
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If somebody is popular does
that mean they are more lovable?
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Look of this old picture of
my grandma and grandpa Miner.
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Do they look like
lovable people to you?
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They are both old, they
don't look terribly happy.
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Grandma is fat and
grandpa can't hear or see.
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Hmmm, but here in one of
my magazines, let me find it.
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Here it is, this
will give us a clue.
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The eye of the beholder.
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When grandpa looks at grandma
somehow he doesn't see her
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wrinkled brow, her hair is
white now, in her aged serenity.
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He doesn't see her falter
when night its darkness brings,
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that she is slow he'll never
know, or any of those things.
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When grandpa looks at
grandma somehow he doesn't hear
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the broken tones
that she now owns,
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her voice seems firm and clear.
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Her eyes and smile upon
him are faded blue and dim.
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Though time has
changed, they have not changed,
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they look the same to him.
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When grandpa looks at grandma,
forgetting that she is old
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he sees his bride cling to his
side with hair of shining gold.
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He seems to her in splendor,
love just grows and grows.
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If she is gray and bent
today, grandfather never knows.
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Hmmm, now let me show you
the pictures of our wedding day.
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These were taken
over 20 years ago.
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I sure don't look
the same and grandpa
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has changed a little bit too.
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I used to worry that if my
out side changed, or I wasn't
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as pretty as I used to
be, I worried that no one
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would love me.
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But I found out that grandpa
does, his love has stayed
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strong and has never
wavered no matter what happened.
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He reminds me of God.
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No matter what we look
like on the outside He loves us
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because He sees
what is in our hearts.
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Have you figured out what
makes a person lovable yet?
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Being lovable is not
the same as being popular.
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Lovability is what
you are, and popularity is
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something you might have.
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God made you, and He made
you lovable, and nobody can
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take that away from you.
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Popularity is something
other people may give you
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for a while, but
they can take it away too.
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There is nothing you can
do to make God love you less,
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and nothing you can do
to make Him love you more.
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Even if you do wrong
things you are still lovable,
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isn't that good to know?
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He made you
lovable and that is it!
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There is nothing
you can do to make me
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love you less
either, when I look at you
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I see the most
precious faces in all the world.
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I see stars shining in
your eyes and big important
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dreams in your heart.
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Keep these thoughts close to
you tonight as you go to sleep.
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and until next time
know that you are deeply
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loved and nothing
will ever change that.
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The purple potatoes I
like them very much because
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they are my favorite color.
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Purple mashed
potatoes aren't right.
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She showed us some
before she picked them and
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they were purple in the middle.
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You say potato and I
say tomato, no! no! no! no!
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it doesn't go like that.
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Why would you think that?
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I say potatoes,
you say Potatoes.
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I wonder what French fries would
look like if they were purple?
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What's a Patato?
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Well at first I thought
they looked gross but then
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I tried some they were Ummm!
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I see grandpa it those
potatoes and that was funny.
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I wonder if green
beans could be purple?
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Wouldn't it be
called purple beans?
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Yuck! That would be gross!
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