Net Miles Of Smiles

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You Are Beautiful
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You are beautiful. . .
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It’s a phrase that my mother uses a lot.. I used to wonder, “How in the world can Mother call them
beautiful?”
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I am a logical, statistical man.
I call things as I see them.
I didn’t see beauty.
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My mother would tell people this with an enthusiasm they
could feel. She was genuine. She wasn’t telling them they
were beautiful to get something from them. Most of the
time, they were trying to get something from her.
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I wondered for years what was wrong with Mother’s perception and
vision. Couldn’t she see that all of the people she called
beautiful, weren’t beautiful?

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You were beautiful only if you had a certain figure and face
that was classed as beautiful by the laws of the world and
glamour. Yet when my mother spoke, people smiled as though
Glamour magazine had listed them as one of the beautiful people
of the year.
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It took me years to finally understand my mother’s vision
and the phrase, “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.”
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My mother had a spirit that could see the beauty in a person.  .Most only look on the outside and then compare what they
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