<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"><span style="color: rgb(84, 130, 53); font-family: "Comic Sans MS"; font-size: 24pt; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white;">Gratitude</span><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(72, 72, 72); background-color: white;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(72, 72, 72); background-color: white;">by Lucy Maude Montgomery<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(72, 72, 72); background-color: white;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(72, 72, 72); background-color: white;">I thank thee, friend, for the beautiful thought </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(72, 72, 72);"><br><span style="background-color: white;">That in words well chosen thou gavest to me, </span><br><span style="background-color: white;">Deep in the life of my soul it has wrought </span><br><span style="background-color: white;">With its own rare essence to ever imbue me, </span><br><span style="background-color: white;">To gleam like a star over devious ways, </span><br><span style="background-color: white;">To bloom like a flower on the drearest days </span><br><span style="background-color: white;">Better such gift from thee to me </span><br><span style="background-color: white;">Than gold of the hills or pearls of the sea. </span><br><br><span style="background-color: white;">For the luster of jewels and gold may depart, </span><br><span style="background-color: white;">And they have in them no life of the giver, </span><br><span style="background-color: white;">But this gracious gift from thy heart to my heart </span><br><span style="background-color: white;">Shall witness to me of thy love forever; </span><br><span style="background-color: white;">Yea, it shall always abide with me </span><br><span style="background-color: white;">As a part of my immortality; </span><br><span style="background-color: white;">For a beautiful thought is a thing divine, </span><br><span style="background-color: white;">So I thank thee, oh, friend, for this gift of thine.</span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><br></div>————————————————-<br><br><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">http://www.MoscowCares.net</span></div><div><br></div><div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Tom Hansen</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Moscow, Idaho</span></div></div><div><br></div><div>“A stranger is just a friend you haven’t met.”</div><div>- Roy E. Stolworthy</div><div></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>