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> Little Melissa comes home from first grade and tells her father that
> > > they learned about the history of Valentine's Day. "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?"
> > >
> > > Melissa's father thinks a bit, then says "No, I don't think God would
> > > get mad. Who do you want to give a valentine to?"
> > >
> > > "Osama Bin Laden," she says.
> > >
> > > "Why Osama Bin Laden," her father asks in shock.
> > >
> > > "Well," she says, "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 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 he'd start going all over the place to 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.
> > >
> > > "Melissa, that's the most wonderful thing I've ever heard."
> > >
> > > "I know," Melissa says, "and once that gets him out in the open, the
> > > Marines could blow him sky high."
> > >

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