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Times will come when no matter how hard you try to fix all the holes in the roof of your life, rain will still get through.
There will even be times when you can hear the rain hitting harder and harder, and more and more water will slip in, and then you'll really feel ******.

Someone once told me it's impossible to eat a whole elephant all at once.
You have to take it bite by bite.
I think it's all the same, though.
You can't patch up every hole that's letting in water all at once.
Sometimes you just have to put a bucket down beneath and move to the next leak.

You may even face times when you have exhausted yourself trying to patch all your leaks that keep springing loose.
You will have run out of buckets and pans both, and you're slowly sinking.
That's when it's okay to ask for help from the people you know love you.

I hope, too that you will see days when you don't mind falling in love with life
despite how ****** she may be.
On these days, may you ditch the effort to fix those leaks and go outside and play in the rain.
November 14, 2013
Teresa Smith
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