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Got this in an email. We should all love like we were 4-8

What Love means to a 4-8 year old . .

Slow down for three minutes to read this. It is
so worth it. Touching words from the mouth of babes.

A group of professional people posed this
question to a group of 4 to 8 year-olds, 'What does love mean?'

The answers they got were broader and deeper
than anyone could have imagined See what you think:

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'When my grandmother got arthritis, she couldn't
bend over and paint her toenails anymore.
So my grandfather does it for her all the time,
even when his hands got arthritis too. That's love.'

Rebecca- age 8

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'When someone loves you, the way they say your
name is different.
You just know that your name is safe in their
mouth.'

Billy - age 4

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'Love is when a girl puts on perfume and a boy
puts on shaving cologne and they go out and smell each other.'

Karl - age 5

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'Love is when you go out to eat and give
somebody most of your French fries without making them give you any of
theirs.'

Chrissy - age 6

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'Love is what makes you smile when you're
tired.'

Terri - age 4

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'Love is when my mommy makes coffee for my daddy
and she takes a sip before giving it to him, to make sure the taste is
OK.'

Danny - age 7

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'Love is when you kiss all the time. Then when
you get tired of kissing, you still want to be together and you talk
more.
My Mommy and Daddy are like that. They look
gross when they kiss'

Emily - age 8

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'Love is what's in the room with you at
Christmas if you stop opening presents and listen.'

Bobby - age 7 (Wow!)

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'If you want to learn to love better, you should
start with a friend who you hate,'

Nikka - age 6
(we need a few million more Nikka's on this
planet)

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'Love is when you tell a guy you like his shirt,
then he wears it everyday.'

Noelle - age 7

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'Love is like a little old woman and a little
old man who are still friends even after they know each other so well.'

Tommy - age 6

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'During my piano recital, I was on a stage and I
was scared. I looked at all the people watching me and saw my daddy
waving and smiling.

He was the only one doing that. I wasn't scared
anymore.'

Cindy - age 8

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'My mommy loves me more than anybody
You don't see anyone else kissing me to sleep at
night.'

Clare - age 6

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'Love is when Mommy gives Daddy the best piece
of chicken.'

Elaine-age 5

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'Love is when Mommy sees Daddy smelly and sweaty
and still says he is handsomer than Robert Redford.'

Chris - age 7

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'Love is when your puppy licks your face even
after you left him alone all day.'

Mary Ann - age 4

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'I know my older sister loves me because she
gives me all her old clothes and has to go out and buy new ones.'

Lauren - age 4

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'When you love somebody, your eyelashes go up
and down and little stars come out of you.' (what an image)

Karen - age 7

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this one
'Love is when Mommy sees Daddy on the toilet and
she doesn't think it's gross.'

Mark - age 6

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'You really shouldn't say 'I love you' unless
you mean it. But if you mean it, you should say it a lot. People
forget.'

Jessica - age 8

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And the final one

The winner was a four year old child whose next
door neighbor was an elderly gentleman who had recently lost his wife.

Upon seeing the man cry, the little boy went
into the old gentleman's yard, climbed onto his lap, and just sat there.

When his Mother asked what he had said to the
neighbor, the little boy said,

'Nothing, I just helped him cry'