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FIRST-GRADERS REFLECT ON LOVE.(LIVING)

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From: The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH)
Date: 20000210
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Oliver Wendell Holmes once said, ''Pretty much all honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by children.'' With this in mind, I walked into my son's first-grade classroom at Elm Elementary School prepared to face the truth. I was armed with nothing more than a piece of paper, a pen and questions about that thing called love.

''Eww!'' many of Mrs. Sue Moriarty's students exclaimed when I shared with them that I was writing about love for Valentine's Day. ''This is so embarrassing!'' was the second-most heard comment. Once the giggles and guffaws subsided, the ...

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