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Dec 2010
One quote that I should always like to remember came from an eleven year old girl named Elizabeth.  I was helping a bundle of girls about her age bowl in the Special Olympics.  I am not sure what her handicap was, I guess developmental problems of some kind.  To me she seemed to be a wonderfully happy little girl who just wanted to be held.  She was sitting on my lap, waiting for her turn when she told me the most devilishly perfect, beautiful lie.

"I am not ticklish"

Imagine what it would be like if the only lies told in the world were just sneaky attempts to get hugged, kissed or tickled.

I am not ticklish either, Elizabeth
Timothy Clarke
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Timothy Clarke  53/M/San Diego, California
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