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4/11/2007 4:51:15 PM
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This is for all the "Somebodys" in the world. As in... "Somebody needs to help me with ______________." (Fill in the blank for your particular situation.) I am a somebody, and hope you are too.
> A mouse looked through the crack in the wall to see the farmer and his
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>> > wife open a package. What food might this contain?" The mouse wondered
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>> > - he was devastated to discover it was a mousetrap.
>> >
>> > Retreating to the farmyard, the mouse proclaimed the warning:
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>> > "There is a mousetrap in the house! There is a mousetrap in the house!"
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>> > The chicken clucked and scratched, raised her head and said,
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>> > "Mr. Mouse, I can tell this is a grave concern to you, but it is of no
>> > consequence to me
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>> > I cannot be bothered by it."
>> > > >
>> > The mouse turned to the pig and told him,
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>> > "There is a mousetrap in the house! There is a mousetrap in the house!"
>> > The pig sympathized, but said, "I am so very sorry, Mr. Mouse,
>> > but there is nothing I can do about it but pray. Be assured you are in
>> > my prayers."
>> > > >
>> > The mouse turned to the cow and said,
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>> > "There is a mousetrap in the house! There is a mousetrap in the house!"
>> > The cow said, "Wow, Mr. Mouse. I'm sorry for you, but it's no skin off
>> > my nose."
>> > > >
>> >
>> > So, the mouse returned to the house, head down and dejected, to face the
>> > farmer's mousetrap alone.
>> > > >
>> > That very night a sound was heard throughout the house --
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>> > like the sound of a mousetrap catching its prey. The farmer's wife
>> > rushed to see what was caught.
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>> > In the darkness, she did not see it was a venomous snake whose tail the
>> > trap had caught.
>> > > >
>> > The snake bit the farmer's wife. The farmer rushed her to the hospital,
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>> > and she returned home with a fever. Everyone knows you treat a fever
>> > with fresh chicken soup,
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>> > so the farmer took his hatchet to the farmyard for the soup's main
>> > ingredient.
>> > > >
>> > But his wife's sickness continued, so friends and neighbors came to sit
>> > with her around the clock.
>> > To feed them, the farmer butchered the pig. The farmer's wife did not
>> > get well; she died.
>> > > >
>> > So many people came for her funeral, the farmer had the cow slaughtered
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>> > to provide enough meat for all of them.
>> > > >
>> > The mouse looked upon it all from his crack in the wall, all alone and
>> > with great sadness.
>> > > >
>> > So, the next time you hear someone is facing a problem and think it
>> > doesn't concern you, remember
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>> > -- when one of us is threatened, we are all at risk. We are all
>> > involved in this journey called life.
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>> > We must keep an eye out for one another and make an extra effort to
>> > encourage one another.
>> >
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