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posted February 14, 2004 11:02 PM         

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There is an old woman who rides my bus every Thursday and Friday. She smiles when she sees my face in the mirror and I smile right back, because her riveting elation commands a response in kind. It's something to see her face light up when she laughs as we go around the turns. She rides to the end of the run and back the other way, getting off where she began. Oh she gets her money's worth, and although her English isn't good at all, she still smiles and waves goodbye. I smile and kneel the bus for her, then waving, I tell her I'll see her again tomorrow(or next week if it's a Friday.) She nods her head and turns to go. As she heads toward the front door to her home (for the developmentally disabled), I can't help but wish her well in my heart because she's such a special soul. All of the impairment in the world couldn't hide a light like that.

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From: Victoria, Australia
Registered: Jan 2004

posted February 15, 2004 06:57 PM         

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Beautiful Daf.

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From: ontario, canada
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posted February 21, 2004 02:50 AM         

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My mother is a bus driver for the city we live in....
She is both healer and traveller...
an herbalist and a born again christian....
a witch every childhood hallowe'en...
morphed into an angel complete with six foot homemade wings...
she clings to bigger, brighter things...
her profession is a part of her healing to peole,... she embraces their troubles as if they were her own, she too, smiles in the mirror and always has a happy word or two.. or several thousand, man, can that woman talk!!! But she will listen with a fervour and a well placed healing hand hovered near a recent pain is enough that you know there is more to gain..
her presence is magic and some find her strange.. including her deluded daughter, all wrapped up in her own travels, sometimes taking the time to write down the specialness she sees, sometimes not eclipsed by the pain of promises broken and wrong turns down slippery inclines in our own private bus ride. She smiles in the mirror at me too, if I look hard enough.

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From: Columbus, GA USA
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posted February 22, 2004 11:14 AM         

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"Never mentally imagine for another that which you would not want to experience for yourself, since the mental image you send out inevitably comes back to you." Rebecca Clark

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From: New England
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posted February 25, 2004 05:59 PM         

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pixel, I've come back 3 or 4 times to read this again. Smiles and tears.

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From: Waterloo, IA United States trailingclouds@yahoo.com
Registered: Feb 2004

posted February 25, 2004 10:31 PM         

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how beautiful, both stories

any way these people can be cloned?

raine6

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