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Obama Speech May Fall on Deaf Ears

Obama Speech May Fall on Deaf Ears

How many members in your family, your close family, the family that comes to birthday parties or Christmas Eve celebrations? Ten? Twenty? I bet it's fewer than 40. How about your friends - your close friends, the ones who call when you're sick, the ones who share vacations? How many? I bet it's fewer than 40.How about your church, your synagogue, your mosque - people you know there, you shake hands with, you well-wish? Twenty? Thirty? Again, fewer than 40, right?

Mitch Albom writes about running an orphanage in impoverished Port-au-Prince, Haiti, his kids, their hardships, laughs and challenges, and the life lessons he’s learned there every day.

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