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Out on a Limb
From Chicken Soup for the Soul: I Can't Believe My Cat Did That!
By Linda S. Clare It is surmounting difficulties that makes heroes.
~Louis Pasteur Early on a crisp October morning, I stood on our back deck and shivered. The temperature had dipped below freezing for the past two nights, unusual for an Oregon autumn, but it matched my mood. A day earlier my sixteen-year-old, Nate, had been caught smoking near the high school. He and a friend had climbed into a tree to hide their activity. Now he was suspended from school for a week. My hands stuffed in my jacket pockets, I clenched my jaw. I couldn't believe it. He had embarrassed the whole family. I felt ashamed. (Keep reading)  
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