The Pledge
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...we were all business.
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And I would give her...
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...her lesson just the same
as all my other pupils.

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And it was no "Grandma" this
or "Grandma" that.

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But the moment we were done...
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...she was my Ginny again.
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How could God be so greedy?
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Ma'am, I....
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And after the lesson?
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Cookies.
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We would have cookies,
if I'd baked them.

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Sometimes I would send her down
to the Land of Christmas...

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...the store downstairs,
for candy or ice cream.

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She would eat her sweets
and I would read to her.

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She loved Andersen.
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Who?
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Do you know what he wrote
in his story "The Angel"?

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No.
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Here.
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"Whenever a good child dies...
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...an angel of God...
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...comes down from Heaven...
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...and takes the child in his arms.
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And spreads out his great white wings.
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And flies with her...
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...over all the places...
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...that she loved during her life.

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