You no more have the right to risk others by failing to vaccinate than you do by sending your child to school with a hunting knife. Vaccination isn't a private choice but a civic obligation.


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blazing across the sky? Or did he dream using the few
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additional twenty feet. Not much if the ladder was at an angle—but because it would have to be pos...
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Didn’t we just talk about this the other night?” Denise sighed with exasperation. “Yeah, we ta...
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But then again, he hadn’t really been looking, had he? Both Valarie and Lori claimed that there wa...
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Vais encontrar muita gente pela vida fora que diz as palavras certas na altura certa. Mas, ao fim e ...
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You don’t understand –” “Like hell I don’t!” Mitch said, slamming his beer glass onto th...
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Her mother had once told her that there were men who kept secrets bottled up inside and that it spel...
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You know how it is. You feel a little different because other people have two parents, even if they�...
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I don’t know you? Hell, I know you! You’re a damn coward, is what you are! You’re afraid of li...
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- You've been through a lot in your life.
- Too much, I sometimes think.
- But you keep go...
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Of the many things she’d learned from her mother, there was one that always stood out, one that ca...
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Not really. I suppose it depends on how you look at it. For me . . . well, it just adds a richness y...
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She hadn't chosen this life; it was the only life offered to her.
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These days she simply did the best job she could, accepting the good with the bad.
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Did you hear that Mitch? Your mom thinks you're beautiful.
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Your going to come across people in your life that say all the right things at the right times. But ...
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Everyone has crap in their background, everyone has things they wish they could undo. But most peopl...
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Loving someone and having them love you back is the most precious thing in the world. It's what made...
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It took me a long time to realize that distance can ruin even the best of intentions.
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Distance can ruin even the best of intentions.

But I suppose it depends on how you look a...
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Youth offers the promise of happiness, but life offers the realities of grief.
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I don't want to lose you.' His voice almost a whisper. Seeing his haggard expression, she took his h...
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They inspire you, they entertain you, and you end up learning a ton even when you don't know it
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It is the possibility that keeps me going, and though you may call me a dreamer or a fool or any oth...
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The past was gone and the future had yet to unfold, and he knew he should focus his life on the pres...
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For a moment, I wondered how different my life would have been had they been my parents, but I shook...
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It was their secret, a secret meant for just the two of them, and she'd never been able to imagine h...
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She had been proud of his decision to serve his country, her heart bursting with love and admiration...
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I fell in love with her when we were together, then fell deeper in love with her in the years we wer...
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The saddest people I've ever met in life are the ones who don't care deeply about anything at all. P...
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And when her lips met mine, I knew that I could live to be a hundred and visit every country in the ...
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The greater the love, the greater the tragedy when it's over.
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I love you more than there are stars in the sky and fish in the sea.
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If you like her, if she makes you happy, and if you feel like you know her---then don't let her go.
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Love is like the wind, you can't see it but you can feel it.
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Aren't you frightened?"
Somehow I expected her to say no, to say something wise like a grownup...
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Eventually I came across another passage. This is what it said:
I am not commanding you, but I ...
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Jamie: Please don't pretend like you know me, ok?
Landon: But I do, I do. We've had all the sam...
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Jamie: You're acting like a crazy person, what's going on?
Landon: Right now, you're straddling...
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She was, in other words, the kind of girl who made the rest of us look bad, and whenever she glanced...
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You're a wonderful person, Jamie. You're beautiful, you're kind, you're gentle...you're everything t...
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Gossip is one thing, hurtful gossip is completely another, and even in high school we weren't THAT m...
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Dean: If there is a greater power, why is it he can't get you a new sweater?
Jamie: Because, he...
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You feel fine, and then, when your body can't keep fighting, you don't.
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I might kiss you.
I might be bad at it.
That's not possible.
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It all made perfect sense, and at the same time, nothing seemed to make sense at all.
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A sad smile crossed her face, and I knew right then what she was trying to tell me. Her eyes never l...
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What's your heart telling you to do?
I don't know.'
Maybe, you're trying too hard to hear ...
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I know the Lord has a plan for us all, but sometimes, I just don't understand what the message can b...
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Jamie: You know what I figured out today?
Landon: What?
Jamie: Maybe God has a bigger plan...
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It was, I remembered thinking, the most difficult walk anyone ever had to make. In every way, a walk...
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The problem isn't finding out where you are gonna go-its figuring out what you are gonna do once you...
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I may be irresponsible but I am a good irresponsible.
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Do you ever wonder why things have to turn out the way they do?
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You have to promise you won't fall in love with me.
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i'm sorry she never got her miracle.
she did get her miracle, Landon, her miracle was you.
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There are moments when I wish I could roll back the clock and take all the sadness away, but I have ...
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First you will smile, and then you will cry -- don't say you haven't been warned.
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