Welcome to Grandma's House!
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The time we spend together
is one Grandma's attempt to
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love and bless in Jesus name.
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The kids you see are
not real actors just kids
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in a real neighborhood.
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Like any other they
are the joy of my life.
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Especially when I
see the little seeds
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I plant begin to sprout.
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If you have an empty
place in your heart please stay.
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Spend a little
time at Grandma's House.
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Hi there you
beautiful grandkids of mine!
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This is a very
exciting day out here.
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We have been making a
tree-house and the boys
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are out here to
help me make a ladder.
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We don't have any
way to get up there yet.
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So we are going to
start with building the ladder
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and in the process
we are going to learn
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to use a number of tools.
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So why don't you
just come and join us and
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help us build the ladder.
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Come on!
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Alright boys, do
you have a nail ready?
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Okay what we want
you to do is nail down,
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take one of these long
nails - I have 2 already
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You have 2 that's wonderful.
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You're doing good.
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Yeaaaaaaaaaah!
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There's a nice flat area here.
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That's just right.
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Grandma had us come
over to help her build
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the tree-house.
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We had to lay down
the floor and we had
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to build steps to get up.
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Long time ago he had the
handle split so he had to
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wrap it with this.
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Whack away, whack away!
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We had to use a
level to make sure that
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the steps were even
where we could climb up it
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so we don't fall down.
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When we are done with
this tree-house, I'm moving in!
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Well here we are at the
Playhouse, this is where
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the girls have been
busy while the boys have been
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over there hammering away.
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Why don't you come on
inside and we will see what
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they're doing in there?
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We'll see if they're
doing it right, come on.
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That was the girl's house,
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we needed to work on it
because that is where us
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girls have like
our own little time.
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Were going to build a
second story to it and us
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girls can have
our own time in there.
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The boys get a tree-house,
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we all get our different things.
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The boys can't come
into it girls house and the
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girls can't go
into the boy's house.
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Would you like
to do some sanding?
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Well we didn't actually
get to choose a color of paint.
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Grandma had like got colors
like pink and the boys get
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like their own colors.
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Us girls get to decide, us
girls, well we voted pink color
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because we all like pink.
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We like to choose pink a lot.
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The boys don't like
pink so they will run away.
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We're not done yet.
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We still have to put
up the walls and a door.
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And it's going to be
the tree-house for the guys.
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The girls already have one.
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I was painting Grandma
Neil's play house pink.
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Because were about ready
to put some different in here.
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I painted the room pink.
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When we paint all of it
pretty and it looks pretty.
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Brittney painted
the stamps on that thing
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and even Samantha.
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And Marissa had to
tape the windows and
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I painted it with a ruler.
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We have to paint and
as soon as we are done
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painting and covering the nails.
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We get to organize everything,
but before we organize
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we have to build
up the second part.
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Because the logs are
hanging the sides like this.
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What we are going to do,
they are going to have us
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kids go up there and sit
down and were going to put
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boards all over it
and nail them down.
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Then we are going to
make stairs to go up there.
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So as soon as
we finish it we can
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probably stay the night.
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As long as it is
okay with Grandma Neil.
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Sometimes we like
to peek out the window,
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they like to sneak
in on us and everything,
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they like to scare us too.
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Wow we've been
having so much fun today and
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I am so glad you guys came.
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You know while we're getting
our things cleaned up here,
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the paint brushes and so
forth, there's time for you to
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write down my address.
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I would love to
hear about your projects,
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all about your life,
so why don't you write me
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a letter real soon?
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If you don't have my
address yet get ready
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because here it comes.
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Hey kids Grandma Neil
would love to hear from you.
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She loves to get
pictures, drawings and anything
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else you may want to send her.
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She also answers each
one of your letters so get
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your pen ready and
write down her address.
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We sure used a lot of
different tools today didn't we?
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Do you remember
everything you learned about
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how to use them?
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The best way to
remember is to practice using
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each tool again real soon.
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Be sure to check with
your parents first though and
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do remember to put the
tools away clean and dry when
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you are finished with them.
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That is the sign
of a master craftsman.
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He takes
excellent care of his tools.
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I started learning
about tools from my dad
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when I was pretty young.
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He taught me to
important things about tools.
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The first one is to
buy the very best quality
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you can afford.
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The quality of your
tools determines mostly how
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the success of your
project will turn out.
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You just can't do
excellent work with cheap,
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flimsy tools.
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The second thing I
learned is to take really good
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care of the
tools that you do buy.
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It is just plain foolish
to invest in quality tools
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and then be too
lazy to put them away.
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Do you remember the story
I told you about working on
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the roof with my dad?
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There is something
really special about having your
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father's attention all
to yourself, isn't there?
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Then if he let you build
something that is even better.
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When somebody takes the
time to teach you something,
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it is their way of
showing that they love you.
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Like my dad let me
help him on the roof.
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He was showing me that he
loved me by letting me help him.
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I didn't do it very well,
but I felt very important,
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very useful and I
knew that he loved me.
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That is how God is too.
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I know He loves me when He
teaches me how to help Him,
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by using the
tools that He gives me.
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God has a lot of work to
do, did you ever wonder how
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He gets it all done?
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You know He could do it
all by Himself, but He wants us
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to know how much He values
us, so He lets us help Him.
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He gives us the tools
and shows us how to use them.
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Do you know what God's work is?
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Well Jesus summed
it all up in the words
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of the Golden Rule.
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Treat others the way you
want people to treat you.
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That doesn't
sound too hard, does it?
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Sometimes it is easy
to treat people well,
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when they are nice to us.
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But it can take a
really strong person to be kind
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to someone who mistreats you.
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Well just like you get
stronger when you exercise,
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and just like
practicing with the tool will
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help you to work better.
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Practice doing good to
everyone no matter what and
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that will help you to
get better and better at
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being a real help to God.
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Think about what tools
you have right now that you
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could put to
work doing God's jobs.
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In making this
world a better place,
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it is the most
important work there is.
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Your voices could be
a tool, maybe you know
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a cheerful song, you could
sing it for someone who is sad.
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Your hands can be tools to
help someone carry something,
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or pat somebody on the
back and say thank you.
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Do you have food
that you could share
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with a hungry person?
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Well how about a
coat or pair of shoes.
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There are dozens of ways
that you can work with God
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and I will promise you
this you will never be happier
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than when you do God's work.
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Today I am having the
best time of my life when
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I spend time alone
with my Heavenly Father.
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Then I go out and help
Him do His work, just like
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I had the most fun when I
spent time alone with my dad,
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helping him with his work.
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Way back then
on the garage roof.
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You know the more
I get to know God,
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the more fun it
is to be with Him.
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He is absolutely wonderful.
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Till the next time I see
you, don't miss out on the fun.
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Go to work with God,
He'll love it and so will you.
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What's the difference
between a grandpa and a grandma?
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Well of course grandpa is
a boy and grandma is a girl.
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Girls do a lot more sassy
things, some girls aren't that
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sassy, some girls are
like tom boys, like I know me,
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Marissa and Tessa are tom boys.
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But then Tessa can sometimes
be a little girly, girl.
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She's actually a
really girly, girl.
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She gets her nails done
and she is like back off, Okay!
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