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#44: Obama, Don’t Give Up, We’ve Come So Far Already! We’ll Get There! Here Are Your Cuffs!



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We wanted to pray a prayer for the America by making cuffs for her President

and giving them on Earth Day,

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but they aren’t finished.

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We were starting to feel stressed about it today, so we went outside to blow some bubbles…

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when a pink fairy came by,

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“Cuffs aren’t about stress or fear!” she said,

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“Cuffs are for fun!”

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And then she told us to keep working on them…

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…that we would eventually get there!

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We’ve come so far already…

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The main pieces we joined together on November 4th 2008 ,

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then I threw them in a bag of dried tobacco leaves and some other stuff for a few months.

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I took them out again in January to see about making a rope

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by recycling this fringe that was made by the people of Afghanistan.

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It is tricky getting individual strands to flow together as something,

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but with enough thread, we found we can do anything!

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Obama has Cuffs!

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Next, it’s Cuffs for everyone!

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lveo. peace~


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9 Responses to “#44: Obama, Don’t Give Up, We’ve Come So Far Already! We’ll Get There! Here Are Your Cuffs!”

  1. rachel says:

    oh, this was so good to read, today.
    you are doing somethin special, mademoiselle!

  2. Joana Smith says:

    Sorry this ending kind of sucked, guys.
    -just sooo tired from making the cuffs.
    I'll keep working on it*
    lveo~

    joana

  3. megan says:

    cuffs for everyone!!

  4. Uncle Danny says:

    Obama's cuffs look awesome! They will be complete at just the right time, I'm sure.

  5. sj* says:

    wow! yay! kaAPow! bang! boom! cuffs!

  6. sarah says:

    yaaaaaaay obama cuffs!!!!!!!!

  7. sarah dawn says:

    Joana, they did not suck, know knock that off silly lady. I think they are wonderful and I am so moved by the rope.

    SWAK, sd

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