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{Straight From the Heart} *My Protector and Friend* 10/24/00
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We are heading north for the next couple of days so there will be no SFTH email until Friday. However, I have added something fun to the website that you may want to check out. Kristi and I filled out a questionaire about ourselves that we thought all of you might enjoy reading to get to know us a little better. Click on the link below to go to the website!
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Michael
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My Protector And Friend
~My Brother Bill ~
By Francine Pucillo
We are at the station
You can only see our backs
The suitcase that we carry
Is filled with this and that
Going to our Dad's house
Although we are so small
He'll meet us at the station
When we get there we must call
Can't believe we're walking
Where no guardian is near
My brother Bill is holding hand
So tightly out of fear
He wants to make sure that
I don't wander off
I know he surely loved me
Was afraid I would be lost
Picture this within my mind
Forever and a day
Tears that stung on little face
Are with me still today
We got into this train
Traveled 'til we reached
The man we called our Daddy
Indifferent with his greet
My brother Bill looked down at me
Winked with eyes of blue
Until today I still can see
His twinkle in my view
So now that I am grown up
My brother Bill is gone
I always see this picture
It's etched within my mind
Walking in a station
Holding heads down so forlorn
My brother grasping tightly
The sadness oh so strong
Just two little children
Who always seemed to roam
Never knew the peacefulness
Of a home we called our own
You just cannot imagine
The day he passed away
A part of me that died when he
Lost his breath that day
Each day when I look above
See the sky so bright
Protector smiling down on me
Holding hands so tight.
Francine Pucillo
FraniaP@aol.com
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Francine Pucillo, lives in Bayville, Long Island, New York. A small town on the north shore of Long Island that boasts of the background of the beautiful Long Island Sound. She has been married for 12 years. Originally from Brooklyn, New York, she wrote this poem as a memorial to her brother Bill, who was her protector and friend as a child.
Check out her home page to read more of her writing!
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Thought For The Day:
"A true friend never gets in the way, unless you happen to be going down."
(Arnold Glasow)
Verse for the Day:
"If one falls down, his friend can help him up. But pity the man who falls and has no one to help him up!"
Ecclesiastes 4:10
Kid's Thought For The Day:
"A first grader told his teacher the Indians could not possibly have served
popcorn to the Pilgrims at the first Thanksgiving because they didn't have microwave ovens back then."
Parent's Thought For The Day
"The teacher asked her class what each wanted to become when they grew up. A chorus of responses came from all over the room. "A football player," "A doctor," "An astronaut," "The president," "A fireman," "A teacher," "A race car driver."
Everyone that is, except Tommy. The teacher noticed he was sitting there quiet and still. So she said to him, "Tommy, what do you want to be when you grow up?" "Possible" Tommy replied.
"Possible?" asked the teacher.
"Yes," Tommy said. "Mom is always telling me I'm impossible. So when I get to be big, I want to be possible."
Coach's Thought For The Day
"Those that know how to win are much more numerous than those who know how
to make proper use of their victories.
(Polybius)
Deep Thought For The Day:
"I worked with an individual who plugged her power strip back into itself and for the life of her, could not understand why her system would not turn on."
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/_/\/\ MICHAEL T. POWERS
\_\ / THUNDER27@aol.com
/_/ \ "For I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but
\_\/\ \ Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body I live for the Son
\_\/ of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me." Galatians 2:20
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