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February 14, 2006
A Heart-Warming Valentine's Day Story
Today I encountered this heart-warming tale from the The Liberty Belles". It travelled a goodly distance before arriving here on my blog, so... it's of questionable origin. But it is so wonderful that you simply must read it... so, here goes.
Little Thelma comes home from first grade and tells her father that they learned about the history of Valentine’s Day. And, “Since Valentine’s Day is for a Christian saint and we’re Jewish,” she asks, “will God get mad at me for giving someone a valentine?”
Thelma’s father thinks a bit, then replies, “No, I don’t think God would get mad. Who do you want to give a valentine to?”
“Osama Bin Laden,” she says.
“Why him?” asks father, shocked.
“Well,” says Thelma, “I thought that if a little American Jewish girl could have enough love to give Osama a valentine, he might start to think that maybe we’re not all bad, and maybe he’ll start loving people a little bit. And if other kids saw what I did and sent valentines to Osama, he’d love everyone a lot. And then! And then he’d start going all over the place tell everyone how much he loved them and how he didn’t hate anyone anymore.”
Her father’s heart swells and he looks at his daughter with newfound pride. “Thelma, that’s the most wonderful thing I’ve ever heard.”
“I know,” Thelma says, “and once that gets him out in the open, the Marines could blow the hell out of him.”
Hope you enjoyed that... I know I did!
— The Shelanman
Posted by andrew at February 14, 2006 04:04 PM
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