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text-decoration: none;">How many times do we wonder how can my one
voice make a difference? Last night I was referred to this poem.</p>
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text-decoration: none;">With love,......Carlie<br>
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text-decoration: none;">‘Tell me the Weight of a Snowflake’ from <em
style="box-sizing: border-box;">New Fables, Thus Spoke the
Marabou — </em>by Kurt Kauter. <br>
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<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 15px 0px; caret-color:
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center;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(51, 153,
102);">“Tell me the weight of a snowflake,” a coal-mouse asked a
wild dove.</span></p>
<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 15px 0px; caret-color:
rgb(105, 105, 105); color: rgb(105, 105, 105); font-family: Lora,
serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps:
normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans:
auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal;
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-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; text-align:
center;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(51, 153,
102);">“Nothing more than nothing,” was the answer.</span></p>
<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 15px 0px; caret-color:
rgb(105, 105, 105); color: rgb(105, 105, 105); font-family: Lora,
serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps:
normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans:
auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal;
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-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; text-align:
center;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(51, 153,
102);">“In that case, I must tell you a marvellous story,” the
coal-mouse said.</span></p>
<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 15px 0px; caret-color:
rgb(105, 105, 105); color: rgb(105, 105, 105); font-family: Lora,
serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps:
normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans:
auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal;
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-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; text-align:
center;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(51, 153,
102);">“I sat on the branch of a fir, close to its trunk, when
it began to snow — not heavily, not a blizzard –no, just like in
a dream, without a wound and without any violence. Since I did
not have anything better to do, I counted the snowflakes
settling on the twigs and needles of my branch. Their number
was exactly 3,741,952. When the 3,741,953rd dropped onto the
branch — nothing more than nothing, as you say, the branch broke
off.”</span></p>
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rgb(105, 105, 105); color: rgb(105, 105, 105); font-family: Lora,
serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps:
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-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; text-align:
center;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(51, 153,
102);">Having said that, the coal-mouse flew away.</span></p>
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rgb(105, 105, 105); color: rgb(105, 105, 105); font-family: Lora,
serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps:
normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans:
auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal;
widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;
-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; text-align:
center;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(51, 153,
102);">The dove, since Noah’s time, an authority on the matter,
thought about the story for a while and finally said to herself,
“Perhaps there is only one person’s voice lacking for peace to
come to the world.”</span></p>
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