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This week's theme: Graduation
June 18: Each of Us Must Climb Our Separate Mountain
June 19: Free at Last! Our Childhood Is Over
June 20: Hail to the Graduate
June 21: To My Sister on Her Graduation
June 22: To Give as You Have Given Takes a Love

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To Give as You Have Given Takes a Love

To give as you have given takes a love
Hallowed by a special kind of grace.
After all, the lives we will embrace,
Now are shaped by those that our hearts move.
Kids need the kind of leader you have been.
Your efforts don't come close to the real sum:
On your life we build what we become,
Undertaking only what we've seen.

Video Music: Life. By Damiano Baldoni. Performed by Damiano Baldoni
at the Free Music Archive under a Creative Commons Attribution license.

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