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Several
years ago, money was so scarce in one household that a man
got furious with his three year old daughter for wasting a
roll of gold wrapping paper on a present she put underneath
the Christmas tree.
The next
morning the little girl brought her father the present she
had wrapped and said:
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"This is for you daddy."
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The father,
ashamed of his anger, had another quarrel with his daughter
after he opened his gift and saw that it was nothing but an
empty box.
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He exploded,
"Don't you know, when you give someone a present like this
you should put something inside the box!"
The little
girl looked up at her father, with eyes full of tears, and
said,
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"Oh daddy, I had putted a thousand kisses for you."
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The father
almost died of embarrassment.
He then
hugged his daughter and asked for her forgiveness..
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Only a
short time later, an accident took the life of that same little
girl.
It is told that the father kept that gold-wrapped
box by his bed for all the years of his life. And whenever
he was discouraged or faced difficult problems, he would open
this special box and take out an imaginary kiss and remember
the love of the child who had put it there.
In a very real sense, each
of us as human beings have been given a golden box filled
with unconditional love and kisses from our family, our children,
our friends and God.
There is no more precious possession that anyone
could hold.
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(Page
from http://www.marypages.com)
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