I'm electric with vertigo, even though I'm on the ground, vertigo like I felt once when I stood on the edge of a high cliff in Arizona and looked straight down.
As Mary Grannon, the beloved Mary of The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation__ __ust Mary_ hour says:So many parents are clinging to some favorite story in their own youth and measuring all children's material by it__orgetting what the last minstrel found out in his travels, that 'old times are changed, old manners gone, a stranger fills the Stuart's throne.' Let's not be like the bigots of the iron time; let's be rooters for the modern.
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As Mary Grannon, the beloved Mary of The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation__ __ust Mary_ hour says:So many parents are clinging to some favorite story in their own youth and measuring all children's material by it__orgetting what the last minstrel found out in his travels, that 'old times are changed, old manners gone, a stranger fills the Stuart's throne.' Let's not be like the bigots of the iron time; let's be rooters for the modern.
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