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10 - Th« Morrisvilte and Preston Progress, Thursday, December 19,1996 A dose of compassion the best gift By RoxanM Pomw/s Dear Santa, Tm an elementary scbool teacbo', and I’d like a new heart No...my heart isn’t damaged by disease, but it is t»oken, you see, Santa, just about every day I see little pec^le hurting so bad...all because of their very own classmates. Just last we^ Santa, I found a little girl hiding in one of the restroom stalls crying and refusing to come out be cause classmates had taunted her for not having nice clothes. The hair around her little face was so saturated with tears that it was separated into several tight little strands. When I took her little hand into my own to try to coax her out of the stall, it was shaking. By the time I got her calmed down, I didn’t know if her hair was more saturated with her own tears...or mine. Yesterday, Santa, I saw two chil dren hurting. First, I watched from a short distance away as a young father held his sobbing son to his chest and spoke in a quiet reassur ing voice. I couldn’t detect what he said, but I could swear I felt his chest ccHistrict painfully even as his small son’s heart beat wildly against his own. This particular child fell victim to his peers merely because he is of a much slighter build than most boys his age; the other children call^ him names that no human being should ever be called...yet, it is common today for children to call other children whom they consider less desirable than themselves by these horrible names. The other child I saw hurting yes terday was a little child clinging so tightly to her mother that she seemed to be attempting to hide her chubby little body in the folds of her mother’s skirt. Her mother cupped her daughter’s face between her own loving hands, and as she looked into her little girl’s beautiful blue eyes, she seemed to drown in the tears pooled there, until her own tears spilled down her cheeks, and the comers of her mouth gently twitched as she struggled to maintain composure. I raised three children, Santa, and I know that physical pain is preferable to tte kind of pain a parent feels when they must stand by and helplessly watch their child suffer the ridicule and rejection of others. Santa, 1 guess what I’m really as king for is for parents to instill in their children the gift of compas sion. I suppose many parents need to have that compassion for them selves first, because if they could just imagine bow bad it hurts to see their own child convulsed in tears of pain from rejection, they would m^e sure that their child isn’t the one doing the hurtipg. from all your friends at Winn-Dixie! America’s Supermarket^ Prices Good Wed., Dec. 18th Thru Tues., Dec. 24th! *We will CLOSE at 7 P.M. Christmas Eve, Tues., Dec. 24th! ★We w ill be CLOSED Christmas Di W-D Brand Super-Trimmed $ Whole Smoked Hams t t t- .a- f* 5-Lb. Bag Red Band Flour 18-Oz. Box Duncan Hines Cake Mix EA. 77 77 LB. a- 10 TO 14-LB. AVERAGE t t I W-D Brand Grade ‘A’ Fresh Turkeys Prestige Whole Honey Cured Spiral Sliced Hams Joyner, Red Eye, Peanut City, Or Smithfield Whole Coiuitry Hams 98 W-D Brand U.S. Choice AGED Boneless Sirloin Tip Roasts Single Roll Bounty Paper Towels you (Do Cfiristmas- We'[[(Do (Dinner! ^{oCicCay (DeCi OOinners.,. Complete Complete B&k6d Bsikcd Ham Dinner 4-Lb. Virginia Baked Hun 2-Lbs. Yams 2-Lbg. Green Beans ' 2-Doz. Yeasty Finger Rolls Apple Or Pumpkin Pie •; Turkey Dinner Vegetables Cut Green Beans ’Whole Kernel Com (Reg. Price 98c) 46-Oz. Can Del Monte Pineapple Juice 77 HARVEST FRESH PRODUCE 13-Lb. Bag Harvest Fresh California Fairchild Tangerines PLACE YOUR ORDER NOW AT YOUR LOCAL WINN-DIXIE! Winn-'Dixie Is ‘Jour ‘Party Platter tHeadquarters! (Serves 8 To 12) 25-Pc8- Fried Chicken Drummette Platte: 15* (Serves 10 To 12) Medium hrimp Platter 10-Lb. Mesh Bag Harvest Fresh Idaho Baking Potatoes •15-MINUTES.; $4.97 •30-MINUTES $8.97 •60-MINUTES. $16.97 •120-MINUTES....$29.97
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