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> TWO FRIENDS WERE WALKING THROUGH THE DESERT.
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> DURING SOME POINT OF THE
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> JOURNEY THEY HAD AN
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> ARGUMENT AND ONE FRIEND
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> SLAPPED THE OTHER ONE
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> IN THE FACE.
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>
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> THE ONE WHO GOT SLAPPED
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> WAS HURT, BUT WITHOUT
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> SAYING ANYTHING,
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> WROTE IN THE SAND:
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>
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> TODAY MY BEST FRIEND
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> SLAPPED ME IN THE FACE.
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> THEY KEPT ON WALKING,
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> UNTIL THEY FOUND AN OASIS,
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> WHERE THEY DECIDED
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> TO TAKE A BATH
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>
> THE ONE WHO HAD BEEN
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> SLAPPED GOT STUCK IN THE
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> MIRE AND STARTED DROWNING,
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> BUT THE FRIEND SAVED HIM.
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>
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> AFTER HE RECOVERED FROM
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> THE NEAR DROWNING,
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> HE WROTE ON A STONE:
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> TODAY MY BEST FRIEND
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> SAVED MY LIFE.
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>
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> THE FRIEND WHO HAD SLAPPED
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> AND SAVED HIS BEST FRIEND
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> ASKED HIM, "AFTER I HURT YOU,
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> YOU WROTE IN THE SAND AND NOW,
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> YOU WRITE ON A STONE, WHY?"
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>
>
> THE OTHER FRIEND REPLIED
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> "WHEN SOMEONE HURTS US
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> WE SHOULD WRITE IT DOWN
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> IN SAND WHERE WINDS OF
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> FORGIVENESS CAN ERASE IT AWAY.
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>
> BUT, WHEN SOMEONE DOES
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> SOMETHING GOOD FOR US,
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> WE MUST ENGRAVE IT IN STONE
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> WHERE NO WIND
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> CAN EVER ERASE IT."
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>
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> LEARN TO WRITE
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> YOUR HURTS IN
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> THE SAND AND TO
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> CARVE YOUR
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> BENEFITS IN STONE.
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>
> THEY SAY
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> IT TAKES A MINUTE TO FIND A SPECIAL PERSON,
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> AN HOUR TO APPRECIATE THEM,
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> A DAY TO LOVE THEM,
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>
> BUT THEN AN ENTIRE LIFE TO FORGET THEM.
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> SEND THIS PHRASE TO
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> THE PEOPLE YOU'LL NEVER
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> FORGET.