(repeat after me)

I’m sorry,
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Inspiration,
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for sometimes being one of those people
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who takes more than they give.
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Like at a pot luck
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when everybody has a casserole
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and I bring plastic forks.
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To make up for it
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this week I promise
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to feed the birds.
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Or to wink at a stranger.
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Or to stick my tongue out at children.
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This week I promise
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to call a strange friend.
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Or to tell someone
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who totally doesn’t expect it,
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someone who’s mad at me,
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someone who hates me,
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that I love him
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or her
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or them.
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Or to offer to say grace
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and to make it a good grace
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even when I have no business saying grace
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just to hear the people who inspire me say:
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Amen
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